On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:03:38 +0100 "Cedric BAIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> > maybe you want to postpone this until all the eina stuff is done?
> 
> I need crypto support soon, so I will provide a patch that doesn't
> break API. Before breaking eet API, I agree that we should first
> finish this move to eina, currently postponed for around 2 weeks as I
> have some deadline.
> 
> But I have a little bad news, we will need more than just breaking eet
> API. There are currently 2 bugs regarding eet dump/undump function,
> one that I almost know how to solve and another one that I don't
> understand yet what is going on. The first one is just the dump/undump
> part of list/array/hash of strings bug.
> 
> The problem is in that case that we loose the information in the eet
> data that the chunk is an item part of a list/array/hash and not only
> a string. Solving it is easy... we just need to change eet data format
> so we always store simple type and the group type. I think we can make
> it backward compatible, by just handling both current and new format
> with a new magic string. I have just starting to work on a fix, but
> it's not high enough on my TODO list at the moment. So don't expect
> complete fix before a few weeks.
> 
> The second bug is due to undumping struct of struct which doesn't
> result in the same eet data as the dumped one. My guess is that this
> bug is related to EET_G_UNKNOWN case in _eet_data_dump_encode. But I
> wasn't able to find a fix nor really understand what is going on in
> that case.
> 
> So eet TODO list is quite nice at the moment and need a little bit of
> work before any major release :-)

well.. looks like we have a small reprieve then :)

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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