[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Salvia-1.0.0

[Bas van Dijk]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Sebastiaan Visser <sfvisser at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> Nice! This is certainly worth it.

I'm glad you like it.

Sebastiaan, I made the same mistake as threadmanager does: I forgot to
block before installing the deleteMyPid exception handler in the
forked thread. I added a new patch that adds the necessary block and
unblock: http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~bas/salvia/

BTW What's the git equivalent of 'darcs send -o <filename>' which
saves the patches to <filename>? I would rather send my patches as
email attachements instead of copying my repository to my webserver.
(Note this is the first time I used git)

> I really liked the simplicity of the threadmanager package, it certainly was better than managing threads manually. But your concurrent-extra package seems to do a way better job, I'm certainly going to apply this patch.

Thanks. Note I'm thinking of adding a utility module to
concurrent-extra named something like:
"Control.Concurrent.Thread.Group" that offers some of the same
functionality as threadmanager. Namely waiting for a group of threads
to terminate. It should also offer the automatic garbage collection
that we are now doing manually in salvia (deleteMyPid).

When I have that finished I will make a new patch to salvia that will
use that new module. Then your server will look a lot cleaner again.

regards,

Bas