Re: Strange threading behaviour in guile-16.1 (--with-threads) and (gtk-main): gtk-main blocks all other threads

[Stanislas Pinte]

Dear Andy,

Thanks (with a bit of a delay) for your answer.

Do you think of a potential release schedule for guile-gnome 2.16.0 ?

We will start evaluating our apps for compat against guile 1.8 soon...

Kind regards,

Stan.

Andy Wingo a écrit :
> Hi Stanislas,
>
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:55 +0100, Stanislas Pinte wrote:
>   
>> as soon as I call (gtk-main), all other threads are quickly frozen.
>>     
>
> (1) garbage collection requires cooperation between threads; if the main
> thread running gtk-main doesn't check in now and then the app will lock
> up in gc
>
> (2) i do not recommend combining threads, guile-gnome, and guile 1.6
>
> (3) guile-gnome 2.15.90 + guile 1.8 has decent thread support, although
> it depends on some unmerged g-wrap fixes -- if you are developing apps
> and not hacking guile-gnome i would wait for guile-gnome 2.16.0
>
> (4) "If it breaks you get to keep both pieces" :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>