ExoJob and ExoSimpleJob

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Wed May 6 20:15:05 CEST 2009


Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I've merged ExoJob and ExoSimpleJob into exo yesterday. They can be
> used to wrap long-running, possibly-blocking operations in order to
> execute them in an threaded/asynchronous and object-oriented way.
> 
> ExoJob is an abstract class.

Possibly-stupid question, having not looked at it at all: any reason why 
it's not a GInterface instead?  Seems like it could be much more 
flexible that way; you could turn pretty much *any* object into a job 
(heh, which might be a bad idea).

Otherwise... awesome!

	-brian




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