On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:37:39 -0500 Youness Alaoui <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> wrote:
> Could you explain what you mean by versioning or give me a link to > something that explains it ? > padding is useful so you can change your structure (and add new APIs) > without breaking the ABI and forcing every app to recompile (changed > sizeof). See Ecore.h, Ecore_Version. > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri < > barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote: > > > I'm strongly against padfings. Just have versioning and check it > > > > On Monday, November 7, 2011, Youness Alaoui < > > kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> > > wrote: > > > In my opinion, Elementary.h should be split into smaller files that it > > > includes, kind of like what Eina.h does. > > > If structures are made public, they should have a 'void > > > *padding[MAX_PADDING];' added to the end, makes it easier to not break > > the > > > ABI when adding new stuff. > > > > > > Other than that, I don't know elm enough to comment on anything else. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> We are going to try releasing Elementary soon after the release of > > >> the EFL 1.1. I would like to start a discussion now on what should be > > >> done to prepare Elementary for a release. > > >> I have been doing a quick overview of Elementary.h. The first > > >> problem is that we have a lot of structure in it that should be > > >> allocated by the application and they don't have any information about > > >> version or size, so we will not be able to touch them after the > > >> release anymore. That's bad, I think we need to fix that by adding > > >> function that will do the allocation and zero the memory before giving > > >> the pointer to the app. > > >> The second point is about both gengrid and genlist. I would like to > > >> add a few new callback : > > >> - content_set/content_unset: when set, content_get will return an > > >> object, but it will be reused and it's real content will be set and > > >> unset later. This permit the implementation of some cache mechanisme > > >> directly inside elm_gen. > > >> - label_free: if set, it will be able to override the call to > > >> free. This could help, I have found many times that I am using > > >> stringshare or static string that really don't need to be strdup. Btw > > >> I don't like the name of that callback > > >> This second list of change should not break API/ABI once the first > > >> change are done. So not a big hurry, but they are simple to do and > > >> should help provide better performance. > > >> > > >> Of course I don't plan to play with this until the EFL 1.1 are out, > > >> so you have time for comment. I put here only the thing I want to do > > >> and how I plan to fix them. If you have some idea of what need to be > > >> fixed in Elementary before the release and how you want to do it, > > >> maybe answering to this thread will be a good idea. > > >> > > >> Have fun, > > >> -- > > >> Cedric BAIL > > >> > > >> > > >> -- Mike Blumenkrantz Zentific: Doctor recommended, mother approved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
