There are absolutely problems with the current task system slowing down development.
I would love to work on the directory tree, but I can't bring myself to face the work needed to make it work on the current task system. The new task model should improve all kinds of things, and it should make that programming actually feasible for ordinary humans (because I've designed it specifically so you don't need to know threads to use threads). So I would HOPE that finally making background tasks easily will bring some people back again. I don't HAVE to break everything. But however, I WANT to break everything, because I don't want to be using Padre::Task2 forever. I'd rather replace the current Padre::Task with a next-gen Padre::Task and choose to break all the existing code. Adam K On 1 June 2010 18:05, Sam Crawley <sam_craw...@warpmail.net> wrote: > On 1 June 2010 19:32, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I don't like the whole huge unstable periods. I think every such >> period lowers the level of contribution to Padre. >> Now in the last couple of week we saw a lot less activity than before >> so I am not sure any further drop in involvement will be noticed :-( >> OTOH maybe the new and shiny Task will help generate some >> contributions. > > Is it possible that the issues with the existing Task system are the main > reasons behind contributions being slow lately? (I actually have no idea, > I'm new here, and not really sure what's causing it). I did have some > Task-related ideas (that I've been meaning to send out to the mailing list) > that could be helped with these changes... so maybe that's one vote for more > contributions if the new Task stuff is available sooner (not that I actually > have any idea what they do!) > > From what Adam was saying, it sounds like things might not be that unstable > anyway, as the two task systems can live in parallel. Slow, and a bit messy, > perhaps, but possibly not too unstable. > > Sam. > > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > > _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
