[Lazarus] New application type: HTTP standalone server

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 06/06/2011 12:42 PM, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>> By all means, you can do so, just don't expect me to create the event queue
> Of course not if you don't need it for your projects. :)
>
> As you know, for me it's a major design flow of the LCL, that the event queue 
> is implemented separately within any Widget Type, instead of being a central 
> object that offers appropriate hooks to all Widget Types (maybe "Windows" 
> should better stay outside here.) With this in place, you would not need to 
> bother :).
>
>> None of this requires the use of event queues or timers ?
>
> Of course they do: the free running "embedded" functionality performs lot of 
> stuff on in timed cycles and as a result of events generated by Threads.
>
> Of course all this can be implemented according to other design paradigms, 
> but the beauty of programming in Object Pascal / Lazarus / Delphi is doing as 
> much as possible in main thread events and with that being freed from 
> bothering about mutual access to objects (and using threads only very 
> thoughtfully when it really makes sense), while not needing to bother about 
> "busy" polling loops killing the system performance and/or leading to larger 
> latency. OTOH, when porting Delphi projects, using this paradigm is a must 
> anyway.

Well, if you really think it is so important: please implement it.

You cannot expect us to implement something which we see no use for.

But patches are always welcome. You get my guarantee that I will seriously
consider your patch.

Michael.