[IPython-user] [IPython-dev] A few notes on threading+GUI event loops in Ipython1

[Fernando Perez]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >  I should mention that in my view it is *critical* that we maintain
>  >  twisted as an optional dependency for a pure-terminal system that can
>  >  talk to the gui toolkits the way ip0 does today.  There are many, many
>  >  users of ipython who make good use of the GUI toolkit support for whom
>  >  adding a twisted dependency would be a hassle I don't want to get
>  >  into.
>
>  Yes, this is given. We won't remove anything, just add stuff that
>  optimally works better if you have twisted installed. We won't
>  suddenly switch to twisted if you invoke -qt4thread, for example, and
>  twisted will not be imported unless explicitly requested.

Good.  Since I've only been able to keep up with a fraction of the
discussion, I wanted to be certain that point was clear and I hadn't
missed something going in a different direction.

Cheers,

f