[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Win32: revert to old rc interface

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:30:24 +0100 (CET), git at videolan.org (Pierre Ynard)
wrote:
> vlc | branch: master | Pierre Ynard <linkfanel at yahoo.fr> | Mon Feb 14
> 00:29:50 2011 +0100| [3841c0859053d29058682650e87bf085632eea54] |
> committer: Pierre Ynard
> 
> Win32: revert to old rc interface
> 
> See #4455. The lua interface merely polls, reads and writes on file
> descriptors 0 and 1, and expects it to work. There is no support for
> spawning a console and redirecting/getting file descriptors to it, and
> file descriptors are mixed with socket descriptors and polled, which
> won't work on windows. Until something is done about it, revert to the
> old rc interface

Shouldn't we kill LUA RC for good (on all platforms) ?

The only proponent (Dionoea) has practically left the project. So there is
no point holding our breath for completion.

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