Re: [Orbit-python-list] workaround for gtk+corba

[Christian R. R. <ki...@as...>]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Brian Craft wrote:

> Operating on the theory that the problem is the threading, I rebuilt pygtk w/o
> thread support (orbit-python has it disabled with a #define).

Yes, that's a known problem. Sorry to not have aided you before, but I
have been very busy this week with an article for FOSDEM and couldn't
concentrate.

If you use pygtk-0.6.9 it allows you to disable threading at runtime.

> There seems to be a significant design problem here with the python thread
> model. Perhaps python modules need to agree on a policy for storing thread
> info, so it can be shared. I don't know if it's possible for modules to
> share information.

I think it's possible, but Tack would be the person to comment on this.

Take care,
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