[Gaim-devel] Resolving IP addresses in Gaim

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

People on gaim-commits may already be familiar with this...

Previously there were three different methods used to resolve IP addresses in
Gaim.  We chose a different method at compile time based on your OS.  They all
used either getaddrinfo() or gethostbyname().  The differences lie in how they
achieved non-blockingness.

In Unix-land we forked a process to do the lookup, then waited for the process
to send us the results.  In Windows-land we spawned a thread and did the
lookup there.  In anything else we used a very bland implementation which
blocked the UI.

It seemed dumb to me to have three implementations of the same thing, so I got
rid of the Unix one and the other one and now we're using only the
thread-based lookup.

Ethan didn't like this (I think because it uses threads?), but his reasons
didn't really convince me.  How do other people feel?  It's pretty easy to
revert my change and go back to having lots of crazy and confusing code, if
people want.

-Mark