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Re: indy 10... a piece of crap

Subject:Re: indy 10... a piece of crap
Posted by:"Guillem" (guillemvicens-nospam@clubgreenoasis.com)
Date:28 Mar 2006 09:12:50

twistedvoid wrote:

>
> The more complex you make the plumbing the easier it is to stop
> up the drain.  I have no need for threads.  I'm not doing
> multiple things here.  I'm making one POP connection,
> downloading and making one SMTP connection and uploading.  If
> the antifreeze in 10 would work as it should, I could drop one
> little component on the form, activate it and problem solved.
> Compare that to the bottle of aspirin needed for me to deal with
> threads and it's not a difficult choice.
>

Indy is and AFAIK has always used a multi-threaded non-event-driven
blocking synchronous approach, while ICS uses a single-threaded
(although it's possible to make it multi-threaded) event-driven
non-blocking asynchronous way to do things.

You simply can't use Indy as you would use ICS.

>
> Thanks for the advice but from what I've seen of the SMTP and
> Antifreeze units, Indy 10, compared with 9... is crap.

Then don't use it

--
Best regards :)

Guillem Vicens Meier
Dep. Informatica Green Service S.A.
www.clubgreenoasis.com

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