Re: Discouraging use of sync APIs

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 12:53 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
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> I do agree with Philip's proposal of warning if the sync API is called
> inside the default main context, even if there's the obvious issue of
> console-only code that still uses a main loop, but does not have
> interactivity issues.

I wouldn't want that. I can certainly see that as a necessary evil (say
on application startup), and would rather it threw an error if that sync
call took too long instead.

> maybe we could use G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC for this kind of messages;
> after all, we're already using it for deprecated properties and
> signals.