Hi Haithem, I made a couple of patch to quickly fix the backend in evas/ecore, but not more than that... By the time, I was testing EFL, but I never really used it. Since our hardware is going to embed a GPU, I'm less and less interested in directfb support.
Regards, -- Lionel Landwerlin On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, haithem rahmani <haithem.rahm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > As you can see below the EFL maintainers are going to drop the > directfb backend as GTK people did :(. > they are asking for a maintainer that should update it. > otherwise it will be removed. > Lionel I remember you've done some work on the efl libs to make > the directfb backend work correctly. haven't you? > regards. > Haithem. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> > Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:50 AM > Subject: Re: [e-users] edje_cc error when compiling Webkit/EFL > To: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> > Cc: "Iván Briano (Sachiel)" <sachi...@gmail.com>, > enlightenment-us...@lists.sourceforge.net > > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:03:05 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said: > >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Iván Briano (Sachiel) >> <sachi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> >> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Carsten Haitzler >> >> <ras...@rasterman.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:58:38 +0100 haithem rahmani >> >>> <haithem.rahm...@gmail.com> said: >> >>>> > however I built ecore with "disable-ecore-evas-software-buffer" >> >>>> > flag. >> >>>> > > >> >>>> > > shall enable it ? >> >>>> > >> >>>> > yes. why did you disable it? dont --enable or --disable UNLESS you >> >>>> > know >> >>>> > exactly >> >>>> > what you are doing. defaults do the right thing. >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> well actually I want to have EFL built purely against DirectfB >> >>>> that's why I disabled all option and enabled only the required ones. >> >>>> I rebuilt ecore enabling the "ecore-evas-software-buffer" and I got >> >>>> ewebkit built. >> >>>> >> >>>> thanks for your support. >> >>> >> >>> forget dfb. the dfb engine suport in evas is very basic and by now far >> >>> behind software or opengl. as such i'm thinking of killing off all >> >>> engines except software based ones or opengl. it's not worth the >> >>> maintenance. no one maintains or works on the dfb engine. >> >> >> >> I bet that gustavo will wake up and cry for such a statement ! >> > >> > Finally something will wake up that lazy bastard! >> >> Nah! I don't care about DirectFB or software-16 anymore, we don't have >> any contract to support them, so they may go away anytime... I'm not >> putting my free time on such engine :-P >> >> OTOH, if people are looking to keep directfb/software-16 you can >> always contact us and we can bring them up to shape so raster will not >> nuke them ;-) > > if someone... good and dedicated does take either under wing and brings them > "up to scratch" i'm willing to change my mind - but until then they have > targets painted onto them. i won't nuke for 1.0 - but documentations says > that > they are in bad shape and are not to be relied on (read the README). > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-us...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list directfb-dev@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
