On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:44:54 -0500 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Since 99.9% of the stuff evas is used for won't work and either seg > faults or comes up with useless error messages which don't even begin > to point to the actual problem (like this: dude - that message says EXACTLY what the problem is - to the letter. read it. the code passed NULL as a handle pointer to ecore_evasget() - so what it passed in was NULL - that's bad. > *** ECORE ERROR: Ecore Magic Check Failed!!! > *** IN FUNCTION: ecore_evas_get() > Input handle pointer is NULL! > *** NAUGHTY PROGRAMMER!!! > *** SPANK SPANK SPANK!!! > *** Now go fix your code. Tut tut tut! > > ...which somehow is supposed to be translated by the unsuspecting user > into "Hey, you need to install the evas PNG loader and buffer engine > modules!") without certain basic functionality, the separation of the > following modules into independent RPM packages has been deemed stupid > and reverted: > > evas-module_engine_buffer > evas-module_engine_software_x11 > evas-module_loader_eet > evas-module_loader_jpeg > evas-module_loader_png > evas-module_saver_eet > evas-module_saver_jpeg > evas-module_saver_png > > That is all. > > Michael that's just styupid - as my other mail says. the packages that REQUIRE these should add them as dependencies - EG tne enlightenment package for 0.17 should add these as dependencies - thus indicating what engines and loaders and features it requires at a minimum. what you have done is for rpm users, is effectively neuter a very useful feature - the ability to fine-grain dependencies even if they arene't using e17 or e apps (just using evas for some specific fucntionality like a dvd/pvr system - eg freevo, where it only displays in the framebuffer... just for starters.) > -- > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Feel your breath on my shoulder, and I know we couldn't get any > closer. I don't want to act tough; I just want to fall in love as > we move into the night." -- Peter Cetera and Crystal Bernard, > "(I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight" > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
