* Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> [2013-05-22 17:20:32 +0100]:

> On 22/05/13 16:43, Gustavo Lima Chaves wrote:
> >This is addressed to Elementary coders, especially Tom and (Jack)Daniel.
> >
> >When I released the new, widget classes enabled version of Elementary,
> >I introduced the scrollable widgets, as seen on picture
> >http://docs.enlightenment.org/auto/elementary/elm-widget-tree.png. All
> >those would respond to all elm_scroller_ namespaced EAPI functions,
> >like explicitly said at that widget's documentation --
> >
> >"Its (non-deprecated) API functions, except for elm_scroller_add(),
> >which gives basic scroller objects, are meant to be a basis for all
> >other scrollable widgets (i.e. widgets implementing The Elementary
> >Scrollable Interface). So, they will work both on pristine scroller
> >widgets and on other "specialized" scrollable widgets."
> >
> >What happened after people stepped in to translate the Evas Smart
> >Class based inheritance schema to eo, is that some of those
> >elm_scroller_ functions meant to work on all scrollables DO NOT
> >ANYMORE (they work only for the scroller, itself). That is an ABI
> >break, which can't go on released.
> >
> >Daniel, could you fix that for us, please? All elm_scroller.c EAPI
> >functions which had s_iface-> calls on old elm and now have eo_do()
> >for elm_obj_scroller_ namespaced things are WRONG, like:
> >
> >- elm_scroller_region_get
> >- elm_scroller_child_size_get
> >- elm_scroller_page_relative_set (_get is OK)
> >
>
> I blame the lack of a test suite for the late discovery.

Agreed, and a bit of mis-review by me. But only some functions wrong
is really hard to get.  And being eo failures just console errors
spits, how can an (existing) suite help us?

>
> --
> Tom.
>

--
Gustavo Lima Chaves
Senior Developer @ ProFUSION Embedded Systems

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