[sugar] "Garden": A (currently hypothetical) Sugar library for sharing state between Activity participants

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

>>> A thread would probably be necessary to wait for new messages coming in
>>>       
>> >from the network, and a Lock for the entire shared object as well.
>>
>> I imagine the message listener could also be part of the GTK event loop.
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>
> Hm, I hadn't thought of that.  Now, I may be a complete dummy and
> perhaps sockets work differently under Python than I'm used to, but
> wouldn't the read() call block until a message arrived?
>
> I guess that will really depend on how the messaging API turns out.
>   


We want to use something higher level than socket for messaging and 
whatever that is, it can have an async interface integrated with the 
glib mainloop.

Marco