Re: GNOME::Selector

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Martin Baulig wrote:

> Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:
>
> > Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:
> >
> > > I think properties are well suited for the above case. So I do not understand
> > > why you need such a complex asynchronous interface, especially when we can
> > > implement the whole thing with our existing framework. Please can we try to
> > > find all advantages of both approaches:
> >
> > Well, we can implement this with properties - but the async stuff is required
> > and needs to stay, so we won't gain much with this - but we'd loose the chance
> > to provide a custom filter later on.
>
> But maybe we can "hide" the async stuff internally and make it work with two
> sequence<string>'s instead of that DirectoryFilter interface. I'll try ....

IMO async interfaces are very difficult to understand, so I would really prefer to
hide that stuff somewhere in the C implementation if it is possible.

- Dietmar