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Assimilate zThreads

Registered by Luke-Jr

This blueprint has been superseded. See the newer blueprint "Port to boost::threads" for updated plans.

Porting Armagetron to use pthreads instead of zThreads (unmaintained) seems to be just problem after problem (probably because neither epsy nor I really know how pthreads work), and only solves the zThreads dependency on a subset of our supported platforms.

Therefore, suggest assimilating the portion of zThreads that we use to our internal code. zThreads itself is small, but we only use an even smaller subset (maybe 3 or 4 classes?). Maintaining this subset in-tree should be manageable.

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Complete
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None
Priority:
Not
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None
Direction:
Needs approval
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Definition:
Superseded
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
milestone icon 0.4.0
Completed by
Luke-Jr

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https://launchpad.net/zthread-aa/

Z-Man: is this really essential for 0.2.8? ZThread is an optional library for a (still marked as) experimental component that is disabled by default, and we statically link with it in binary distributions and provide a patch. It seems more sensible to me to move the implementation to something different on the trunk (boost::thread comes to mind).

Luke: Include zThreads or port to boost::thread should happen by 0.4.0 IMO

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