[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Crash whilst using Network test plugin

[Dan Sully]

* max.spicer shaped the electrons to say...

>Am I right in thinking that this would involve bundling a pre-compiled
>process to do the ftp on Win32 platforms without Active Perl?

Yes, unfortunately.

>Are threads simply a complete no-no?  I'd definitely like to fix this
>if it's going to be a cause of server instability.  However, I'm loathe
>to go down the route of compiled exe's unless it's absolutely necessary.
>I have, after all, had no instability problems whilst running this
>plugin for the past few months.

It might work just fine.. there is an issue in that when using perl compiled
without threads (IE: some *nixes), your plugin won't work at all.

-D
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