Re: [xml] win32 thread safety patch

["Robert Collins" <robert collins itdomain com au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Serguei Narojnyi" <serguein opencola com>
> it's too personal, if you don't want to use native threads - don't, if
you
> don't want to use native apis - don't (use cygnus), use wine if you
wish, or
> don't use anything windows-related at all. some people might not like
the
> idea of having another .dll to drag around or they might be personally
> offended by pthreads or they might not like the issue with having
another
> extra codebase that can have potential bugs and so on and so forth,
isn't
> open source is all about having a choice in the end? i see no harm in
> providing easily maintainable, extremly small bit of code that someone
might
> find useful.

Sure. I was simply offering it up for comparison, and from what I'm
hearing, no such comparison has been done. *shrug*. Personally I use
Cygwin (BTW: Cygnus no longer exists) and/or mingw depending on the
project. I've never actually use the project I referred you to.

> p.s. generic tests are only what they are - generic tests.

Agreed.

Rob