Subject: Re: Will scheduler activation be merged with -current soon?
To: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
From: Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/16/2002 18:48:03
On Monday 16 September 2002 12:27 pm, Chris Wareham wrote:
> Now that 1.6 is officially released, will we see things like
> scheduler activation (and most importantly the POSIX threads
> emulation) merged with -current soon? I'm currently hacking
> on a threaded GUI app which relies on the pth package, and
> porting it to GTK+ 2.0, which relies on the ptl package. It
> would be great if I could lose the dependency on pth and ptl,
> by switching to NetBSD's native threads.

FWIW, I'm hoping to remove gtk2's dependency on ptl shortly, i.e. it should 
just use pth.

> If the merge isn't likely soon, does anyone have recent
> experience of the SA branch? If so, is it and the threading
> API stable enough for everyday development use?

I've compiled and run qt3 against nathanw_sa. I've compiled kdebase, but not 
run it yet.

The POSIX threads API is not fully implemented by on nathanw_sa, but there's 
certainly enough to get qt3 running.

Nick