[patch] Assorted changes to the mono bindings

[Jon Trowbridge]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 15:59 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Won't this API preclude use of threads?

Well, it should work fine unless message dispatching starts to happen in
multiple threads.  But if that ever happens, it should be possible to
just put some thread-local data magic behind the API and maintain a
message stack for each thread.

So AFAICT this *implementation* precludes the use of threaded message
dispatch, but the API itself doesn't.  But maybe I'm missing something
obvious. 

> Is this something exposed to apps or is it "behind the scenes" in mono
> bindings, e.g. maybe proxies just have a destroy signal when their
> proxied object vanishes as in glib bindings.

It is exposed to apps, so apps have to do some work (though luckily not
very much work) to manage life-cycles properly.  There might be a nice
way to make it all work automagically, but that would probably be
harder.

Thanks,
-J