Re: NSTimer

2009-02-27 Thread David Chisnall
On 27 Feb 2009, at 06:34, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: You need to have some input source in the run loop (a timer doesn't count) or it will return immediately, as specified in the Apple docs. The docs say: If no input sources or timers are attached to the run loop, this method exits

Re: NSTimer

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 27 Feb 2009, at 11:15, David Chisnall wrote: The behavior on MacOS when I tested it was strange and inconsistent ... sometime the loop returned immediately as documented, sometimes it blocked. My suspicion is that MacOS-X has an undocumented feature of sometimes putting input sources

Re: NSTimer

2009-02-27 Thread David Chisnall
On 27 Feb 2009, at 11:51, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: Perhaps the main runloop will always block in practice under OSX, but I would not rely on it. It will. It is connected to at least one Mach port, which delivers various system events. Other run loops are typically connected to a

Re: [Etoile-discuss] GSoC 2009

2009-02-27 Thread David Chisnall
Hi Fred, I don't think we did a joint application last year - we each did a separate one. A joint application seemed to work well for the FOSDEM devroom (even though none of us could make it in the end), so I'd be happy to do the same for the Summer of Code. Maybe we could make a joint

Re: help for packagers (was: Re: FOSDEM Aftermath - the Hotel / Notes from preparing and giving my talk)

2009-02-27 Thread Nicola Pero
I can say that whenever I was generating the Slackware packages I didn't know the file existed. Only after hitting my head against a wall for a few hours did I ask a question on the list and was pointed to it. I generally follow the list and SVN changes but still didn't know about it.

Candidate for the GAP Project?

2009-02-27 Thread Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
Hi, I stumbled over the following: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html https://sourceforge.net/projects/burn-osx/ Burn is an application to burn most common disks: data disks, audio disks (mp3, audio cd), video disks (VCD, SVCD, DVD-Video, DivX), images and disk copy.

Re: Candidate for the GAP Project?

2009-02-27 Thread Gregory Casamento
I think it makes an excellent candidate. :) On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf lars.sonchocky-helld...@hamburg.de wrote: Hi, I stumbled over the following: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html https://sourceforge.net/projects/burn-osx/ Burn is an

Re: Candidate for the GAP Project?

2009-02-27 Thread Gregory Casamento
http://gsburn.sourceforge.net/ It looks like we've already got an app just like it. :) GC On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf lars.sonchocky-helld...@hamburg.de wrote: Hi, I stumbled over the following: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html