Re: Discouraging use of sync APIs

[Ondrej Holy <oholy redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 10:47:37AM +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
> > I guess there are two approaches: making async APIs easier to use; and
> > discouraging use of sync ones. I think the GAsyncResult framework we?ve
> > got is pretty good, and I can?t think of a way to simplify it.
>
> One convention that I like is to use a _sync suffix for sync APIs,
> instead of an _async suffix for async ones, because it lets me spot
> synchronous calls with grep.
>
> A little sad that there are things like g_file_read that are sync, not
> async.

We already have g_file_read_async, it was probably typo, however I wonder which methods doesn't have async 
versions? Would be probably good start to implemented them if there are any.

Regards 

Ondrej