Re: Introduction of libtinymail-queues

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

FYI 

http://svn.tinymail.org/svn/tinymail/trunk/libtinymail-queues/tny-get-msg-queue.c

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 20:22 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> In libtinymail-queues I/we will implement a few queue types. A first one
> will be (is) TnyGetMsgQueue, which is a queue for getting messages.
> 
> A queue is exactly what it says: a queue indeed. This means that one
> background thread will task per task handle the tasks (not in parallel).
> 
> The libtinymail-queue depends on asyncworker which is a module that you
> can find in svn.gnome.org.
> 
> AsyncWorker is a little library that I wrote a year or so ago. It has a
> OAsyncWorker and a OAsyncWorkerTask type. 
> 
> The task type has a func and a callback to set. The func is the actual
> work being done in the background thread, and the callback is what will
> happen in the GMainLoop as callback (for cleaning up and notifying your
> ui about the task being finished).
> 
> You start using it like this:
> 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/asyncworker/lib/pkgconfig/ ./autogen.sh \
>        --prefix=/opt/tinymail --enable-queues
> make && sudo make install
> 
> In your mua's configure.ac you now simply add libtinymail-queues-1.0 to
> the modules.
> 
> 
> ps. I might add a few more advanced SendQueues to this library too.
> 
> 
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