[RFC] How do I tell the MainWindow that the Part won't work?

[Christian Loose]

Am Samstag, 7. Juni 2003 13:36 schrieb Simon Hausmann:
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>
> Asking the obligatory question :) : Why use a separate process for
> this very task in the first place? Are there locking issues that are
> very hard to solve when doing the CVS handling in-process (i.e.
> launching the cvs process from inside cervisia, not using a second
> proxy process) ?

Sometime ago, after looking at George's dcop services 
(kdenonbeta/dcopservices), I was thinking about creating a cvs dcop service. 
I started to make one, because I hoped that it would evolve in to a global 
KDE service, so that it would be easy for other apps to provide version 
control functionality (Quanta, KDevelop, file dialog, etc...) to their users. 

Since I was working at a cvs tool anyway, I started to also work on Cervisia.
In Cervisia, the functionality was tightly coupled to the GUI, so I was 
thinking about how to separate them. Well this is, when my cvs DCOP service 
came into the game. That's it. :-)

>
> It seems to me that there is a lot of communication between the cvs
> service process and cervisia as client, which is where things get
> complicated with DCOP (how to recover when the process dies?) .
> Imagine how simple the code in cervisia could be if you could deal
> with CvsJob C++ objects directly.
>
> Just a though. Feel free to ignore :)
>
> Simon

Well, the code is simple, thanks to dcop stubs. :-) 

Error handling might become a problem. But I guess that's a problem that other 
DCOP services (KWeather, RSS news feed, etc) also have, so maybe we should 
think about a more global solution. Just a thought. :-)

Christian