From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 May 2011 11:15:22 PDT." References: <20110516163634.1CE14B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:22:31 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20110518002231.D27D8B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] contrib/gui Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5658e9c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:15:22 PDT Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > i think the hanging problem is because the ui and the network activity > are in the same thread. the ui comes back once the slow activity has > completed. It hangs on resizing or panning the window even where there is no network activity. It does seem to handle exposure right. Haven't had time to track this down. On Mon, 16 May 2011 20:27:31 BST "Steve Simon" wrote: > I believe fgb added the feature that all new packages created or updated > create an ISO image. on pull or install contrib checks for the presence of the > iso first. This should mean replica's failings (many RTTs using 9p which > doesn't cope well with high latencies) are avoided; you just download the iso > and unpack it with replica locally. This didn't happen when I fetched python through the gui. contrib/remove python doesn't remove it (goes in an infinite loop). Ah well! Thanks for your comments.