On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:07:09 GMT "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> > > > Not from me, sorry.. :( Feel free to use it or let it go > > > as you wish. > > > > who wants to have a go at this? :) > > > > You once asked me to take evas off your plate, and I told > you that I couldn't, and shouldn't, do that. > There are many things about 'maintaining' such a programing > project that I don't know about, and frankly I don't want to know > about - I'm just not interested. > For those kinds of things, and *many* others, your involvement > is crucial to the welfare of evas. > > However, for quite a few other things, I've come to feel > that you are actually a detriment, rather than a help, to that lib. mostly due to having enough on my plate when i get patches - it takes me forever to go over them - yours tend to be enormous - thus they end up on the bottom of my list (and often contain lots of untested stuff that breaks :() for this i am trying to get off my plate some mechanical "add api call that passes in file, key and params" as separate options work off my plate. ie - you wrote code that offer a feature - GREAT! but the api level access to that feature presents problems. there is a good reason we split off key and filenames long ago instead of merging them - at the api level. internally - is an internal matter. the api gets set in stone - the internals are always fixable later :) as per the other things we have discussed - i have erred on the side of minimal breakage as we now have a tonne of code depending on evas's api - and changing it all is a large mass of work. alternately we could just never write e or any app and forever fiddle with the lib and it's api and internals. evas has reached that state of "good enough" but can definitely improve - it's a dangerous state to be in - and i know just why - as it's "good enough" to build on and that is just what is happening - at it, in turn, is getting neglected. it suffers from "too many engines". too many api's to keep in sync. yes it needs love - but i don't have the time to give it the love it deserves. i have to come and go from it. i generally haven't stopped a lot from happening to evas - except that your patches tend to be massive efforts and they sit in my queue forever. :) > I can't work on evas as you see fit.. not in good faith > to what I think evas needs, and not to efficient use of my time > or efforts. i haven't said no - i just said "this api here need fixing". :) > > jose. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
