Re: [Gaim-devel] Resolving IP addresses in Gaim

[Colin B. <ti...@la...>]

On Aug 20, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Mark Doliner wrote:

> 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.

What exactly is his problem with using a thread? Threads are great;  
they only start to get hairy when you're passing data back and forth  
from one threadspace to another. But this type of task -- performing a  
blocking call without blocking the UI -- is the canonical, text book  
case for threads, and generally results in simple, easy to understand  
code -- assuming the library you're using is sane, of course ;)

-Colin