On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 23:44:48 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 4, 2012, David Seikel wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 12:24:28 -0200 Flávio Ceolin > > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > I have recently committed in IN-EFL/ecore some patches > > > implementing support for loadables modules. It makes the engines > > > been loaded when they are needed. I did not break the api, so > > > each engine still has its own api. It's far from ideal, should > > > exists one api used by all the modules but at least until the > > > next version, we need keep the api. > > > > > > The modules (engines) usually exports just on symbol, the "new" > > > function, the other necessary functions are in the engine's > > > interface. > > > > I'm a bit confused here, why is this needed? Isn't it the case that > > more often than not there's only one useful engine that is > > supported by the hardware? And not like you will be moving a > > window on the fly from X11 to fb? Certainly I don't think anyone > > will be using X11 and Windows engines in the same run of their > > proggy. How is this supposed to work? What use case is there for > > it? > > > > I can understand if it was for image loaders & savers, and other > > stuff, that makes sense, but engines? > > > Before linking to ecore_evas built with x11, wayland and directfb > would bring all those libs even if just buffer engine is used. Also > if you built with them, you could not remove x11 or wayland > afterwards. > > With the new infra, ecore_evas behaves just like Evas and each engine > is a separate shared object, will just bring deps as its loaded. Can > be removed from the system without breaking dynamic linkage. Ah that makes sense. The way it was described sounded more like "one app can load and unload various engines at run time on the fly" to me, which just sounded odd. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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