Re: Discouraging use of sync APIs

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On tor, 2015-02-12 at 12:55 -0800, Philip Chimento wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Philip Withnall
> <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 11:22 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>         > On ons, 2015-02-11 at 12:17 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
>         > >
>         > > I understand where you’re coming from; we should not be
>         irritating
>         > > experienced developers. I completely agree.
>         > >
>         > > What do you think of the proposal to use sync gstdio.h for
>         > > small/local/pseudo-file-system I/O and async GIO for all
>         other I/O?
>         >
>         > I don't think this is a great alternative in many cases. The
>         gstdio
>         > stuff may work fine from C, but the GObjects etc of gio
>         makes such use
>         > much nicer from language bindings.
>         
>         True. Wouldn’t the languages typically have their own native
>         gstdio-like
>         functions for local file I/O though, which would tend to be
>         integrated
>         nicely?
>
>
> Javascript doesn't; one of the main reasons behind the decision to
> make JS the first-class citizen for new Gnome apps developers was
> precisely that it didn't already have its own platform. I got the
> impression that using, for example, Python's native local file I/O
> facilities in the Gnome stack was to be discouraged.


Also, such APIs are rarely as portable as GIO stuff, so I really don't
think we should push the use of them.


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