On 20/12/17 05:39, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:43:29 +0000 > Stephen Houston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I really think a consensus needs to be reached here. The uncertainty >> has too many ill effects in other areas of the project, not the least >> of which is documentation as Andy has said, as well as a difficulty >> prioritizing development efforts and attracting new developers. >> Count me in as on the side of Cedric and Andy that stabilizing and >> releasing in parts is the most ideal method. > > I completely disagree! EFL is a total mess! IMHO what needs to be done > is EO and Wayland should be EFL 2.x. 1.x should remain legacy and X, > with rock solid support. That may also extend to Enlightment with > 0.22.1 has so many issues I had to stop using it. Still even some > issues from EFL now show up on 0.21 when they did not before. > Strange I have it running here and haven't had issues?
> If what exists today has issues, no one will care about what comes > tomorrow. They will not be around for that. Or have any faith that what > comes tomorrow will be better than what exists today, more stable, less > likely to change, etc. > > Major changes should NOT be done in the same major version. That should > be part of a new major release. Why there are major and minor version > numbers. Which E and EFL seem to disregard entirely. E has never had a > major version just minor. > E has never been finished hence it not having a major version yet, efl 1.X.X has never broken backwards compatibility and never will, there is no issues with adding NEW features in minor versions all toolkits do this just as long as existing features aren't dropped. Whenever we get to the point of dropping the legacy API the efl major version will be increased -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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