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Re: Uninstalling apps: is app currently running?

 

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 16:53 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:

> in a brief catch-up call Alejandro asked how we're going to uninstall
> apps. Colin explained that there's still the open question about how we
> can find out if the app (which is going to be uninstalled) is currently
> running or not and what to do about it.
> 
> This might be a question for Ted (or anyone else working on the
> application lifecycle: how can we bring click and the app lifecycle
> together in this scenario?


Detecting isn't that difficult.  The part that I don't think we have is
how do we "pause" the garbage collector for a limited set of time.  I
think that I can get the other parts to work nicely if we have some sort
of way to mark a version as held.

Ted

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