Re: [Lxde-list] LXPanel Weather Plugin

[Piotr S. <pio...@gm...>]

Hi All,

Just a quick update on the plugin:

I updated the code to take care of warnings as submitted by Daniele
Forsi [1]. This was very useful as I got to revisit (and fix) some of
the logic (available at github).

The thing that will probably take a bit of time is the forecast
retrieval multi-threading (as mentioned by Henry [2]), which,
indirectly, affects the issue reported by 'Globe Trotter' [3]
(pthread_kill has been removed in newer versions of the pthread/libc
libraries; it's 'bad form' to use it, anyway).

Essentially, it would be of most benefit to re-visit the entire logic
and implement a consistent scheme for initialization and forecast
retrieval. As it is now, I tried two different approaches, one for
initialization and one for automatic retrieval. While the two work, they
are too confusing and inconsistent to be put in a 'production' release.

So, it'll probably take me a little bit of time to get the code in order
and working properly - I'd like to say 2-3 weeks, but can't be 100% sure.

Thanks for the wonderful feedback.

Cheers,

Piotr


[1]: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30361254
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30357352
[3]: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30376149