From: Robert Rothenberg Date: 14:04 on 16 Aug 2007 Subject: Thunderbird folder compacting hate ------=_Part_54538_32371455.1187269453237 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thunderbird sometimes asks me if I want to compact folders when I start it. So I say Yes. It then pauses folder compaction and asks me for passwords to download mail. If I enter passwords, it gives me an error that it cannot download mail because the folder is locked by the compactor. So I have to manually tell it download the mail. Why can't it just wait until it's finished compacting folders before downloading mail (or even asking me the passwords to download mail)? ------=_Part_54538_32371455.1187269453237 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thunderbird sometimes asks me if I want to compact folders when I start it. So I say Yes. It then pauses folder compaction and asks me for passwords to download mail. If I enter passwords, it gives me an error that it cannot download mail because the folder is locked by the compactor. So I have to manually tell it download the mail. <br><br>Why can't it just wait until it's finished compacting folders before downloading mail (or even asking me the passwords to download mail)?<br><br><br> ------=_Part_54538_32371455.1187269453237--
From: Yossi Kreinin Date: 15:22 on 17 Aug 2007 Subject: Re: Thunderbird folder compacting hate Robert Rothenberg wrote: > > Why can't it just wait until it's finished compacting folders before > downloading mail (or even asking me the passwords to download mail)? > Because that would be lame. Real programmers use threads. For example, I've recently tried to build a fresh project in TI's Code Composer Studio. CCS has these configuration files describing the target, apparently written in JavaScript. A config file created from CCS's template without any modifications won't compile - you get a megaton of "js: compilation error" messages. Now, isn't it nice to have the build process run in a separate thread so that you can click the "stop build" button, and have the shades responsively change on it, showing that it was in fact clicked? And then click it *again and again* for frigging *minutes*? Until the build stops by itself, spitting >2500 errors in the auto-generated file? You couldn't have done *that* by merely polling for the completion of the build, could you?
From: Peter da Silva Date: 16:01 on 17 Aug 2007 Subject: Re: Thunderbird folder compacting hate On Aug 17, 2007, at 9:22, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > Because that would be lame. Real programmers use threads. AUGH! TENTACLES!
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