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 >
