On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Tom Hacohen
<tom.haco...@partner.samsung.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 11:42 +0100, Cedric BAIL wrote:
>> In that case, maybe we should take it from the other side of the
>> problem. What do we plan to add inside eina and if we need to move
>> this infra somewhere else.
>>
>> I do plan to provide an eina_file_mmap implementation that will
>> provide infrastructure for file open/fstat/mmap and cache that some
>> EFL are currently doing locally (Eet, Evas and Efreet come to my mind
>> as the first users of this feature).
>> We also have this XML parser.
>>
>> So what esle could end in Eina ?
>
> If we are adding an XML parser, why not a Json parser as well? And what
> about the 123421 other things there are to parse? If we add them, it'll
> suck, if we don't we'll suck (cause we only support XML in eina, but
> other stuff in other places). Furthermore, I don't want to encourage
> people to use XML, but that's just me :P

In that case what can we put in a parser library ? JSON, XML, edje_cc
syntax maybe, eet_data also ? If that's the case, then we have the
space for a separated library.

> My problem is not with specific functions, but with classes of
> functions. Is Eina EFL's config/file/whatever parsing library? If not,
> it shouldn't include it, if so, so yeah, we can add it. One exception is
> if we want to use XML internally for our config and etc, but then we
> should probably not expose the XML api.

NO ! DON'T USE XML FOR YOUR CONFIG ! EET IS HERE TO DO THAT JOB ! AND
YES, I KNOW MY CAPSLOCK IS LOCKED !
-- 
Cedric BAIL

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