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

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

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:45:22 -0700, Sean Egan wrote
> On 8/21/06, Ethan Blanton <ebl...@cs...> wrote:
> > I remain in opposition to this change, on the principle that it is bad
> > design, but I am not going to get in a long debate over it; if no one
> > else understands or cares that it's bad design, then let it be bad
> > design.  In this instance, the complexity of the code in the
> > subservient thread can be kept under control such that the usual
> > concerns about threading behavior can be minimized.
> 
> Probably no surprise to anyone, I agree with Ethan.
> 
> Considering the DNS lookup code is already written, tested, and
> stable, I see no compelling reason to screw around with it too much
> now, but I'm not too particularly concerned.
> 
> Really, we should just extend our SRV lookup code to handle A records
> asynchronously.
> 
> -s.

I reverted those changes in SVN, so we're back to having three large chunks of
code that do the same thing.

-Mark