On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:51:19 +0100 Stefan Schmidt <s.schm...@samsung.com> said:
> Hello. > > On 10/10/12 10:40, David Seikel wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:33:30 +0100 Stefan Schmidt > > <s.schm...@samsung.com> wrote: > > > >> On 10/10/12 10:17, David Seikel wrote: > >>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:00:54 +0100 Stefan Schmidt > >>> <s.schm...@samsung.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 10/10/12 09:50, David Seikel wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:37:00 +0100 Stefan Schmidt > >>>>> <s.schm...@samsung.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> But I disagree here. Autodetection is even worse in the case for > >>>> the image loaders as your application will fail during runtime to > >>>> load a theme or display thumbnails, etc. In your strictly > >>>> controlled env this is not a problem as you can only blame > >>>> yourself but in my opinion this is a no-no for almost all other > >>>> users. Thus I would vote against autodetection and choose the hard > >>>> deps carefully to fit the majority of our users. > >>> > >>> I suspect packagers would rather have it my way as well. Less work > >>> for them to do if it just detects what needs to be built. They > >>> also have strictly controlled environments. Then they only have to > >>> worry about making sure the dependencies are there, and not have to > >>> worry about figuring out more options as well. Which is their job. > >> > >> I did some packaging for embedded stuff and I hated it. But it seems > >> we both did not do packaging for desktop distros (correct me if I'm > >> wrong for you here). > > > > Well, since you asked, I have done desktop distro packaging of E17 > > professionally in the past. > > Fair enough. :) > > > In the end, it's rasters plans on this that matter more than our > > opinions, coz I suspect he has some. B-) > > He always has. He just wants all his minions to poke around before doing > what he plans to.;) i listen. a lot of the plans are the result of years of people bitching etc. some things as u say are going to become hard no-option deps. not even a --disable. patch the src if u are that interested. but that means eet, png, jpeg for loaders. loaders with no deps will also be always on no option to disable too. those with deps i am tempted to leave as-is right now - ie auto-enabled if deps found. making them deps u have to --disable is i think a bit much. they also are extra ones we can live without (gif, tiff, esvg, edb, webp). i actually will remove the edb loader - really pointless. so we're down to 4 loaders that need external deps that we dont provide. i think thats simple enough. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
