Re: Back in town
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Nov 09, 2016
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certainly nothing cross platform.
In what universe would anyone respond positively to that?
Agreed. Back then, FakeThreads wasn't cross platform and couldn't easily be made cross platform. And interest in FakeThreads was non-existent.
In what universe is plain ole IPC the same as transparently and (almost) instantly sharing the user-chosen variable contents between programs?
Well, we had the latter over 14 years ago with FakeThreads. If there was no interest back then, I don't see why there would be any now.
There's no polling,
FakeThreads has this.
little cpu use,
FakeThreads has this.
plus one include file which the preprocessor writes.
FakeThreads doesn't need this.
and code is eye candy
You've got me there. FakeThreads is ugly to look at.
a looooooooong way from needing it.
Agreed. I think that's true of the community in general - virtually no one needs something like this. If there was more of a need, FakeThreads would have been a lot more popular back then.
When will it ever happen that people can download a working version of Phix, without coming here and asking about the missing files?
Probably when that project has someone with time to perform release testing (downloading and running the release canidate to make sure it works). We used to have a whole team that did this for OE, but now it's just down to _tom.
