On Apr 4, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Toon Verwaest wrote:

> On 04/04/2011 03:55 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
>>>>> +1 for both of Igor's mails!
>>>> Why? this is really important to have threadsafe transcript and it is good 
>>>> to have a look at
>>>> what juan did.
>>>> 
>>>> We should be able to use a transcript even without morph.
>>> It's that exactly what Igor was fighting for?
>> ah ok this was totally unclear.
> I don't know the implementation, nor the old nor the new. I just read his 
> email and thought it made a lot of sense.
> 
> For example where he lost you, he's just saying that it shouldn't matter if 
> the transcript is something that is showing something in a window in the 
> image, or if it's streaming the data to some external client somewhere. The 
> API should just be the writestream API where it's used, independent of how 
> it's being viewed by the second user who is reading the output printed on the 
> transcript.

I agree on that :)

> It sounds like at the moment it's mixed and the user can also start reading 
> from the transcript... that seems wrong since the data might have been sent 
> over the wire; thus being gone and not available anymore in the transcript. 
> Viewing the transcript is something totally different than writing to it.

Thanks.

> 
> cheers,
> Toon
> 


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