On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:25:54 +0100 Thanatermesis <[email protected]>
said:

> > slight problem is that in the process of ensuring edje does
> > its job, the over-engineering made it look like something different, and
> that
> > is where suddenly it looks bad because people use it as "something
> different"
> > then find all the creaky edge cases.
> 
> Can you tell me which "creaky edge cases" ? I never found edge bad designed
> or anything wrong at all on it, im talking of course about the edge that I
> met a good number of years ago but i assume that we still having the same
> one, just more improved :)
> 
> For what something different people wanted to use it ?

i have seen many people propose edje as the solution to glade - as a complete
ui builder solution. i've seen them expect it to do things that elm boxes,
tables etc. etc. do and do it completely. it's very hard to do synamic layouts
(lists etc.) purely in edje. it's designed mostly around an element with a
fixed number of things (labels, etc.) and a fixed known number of states.

> > bob is accepting that reality and trying to make something closer to what
> > people have expected edje to be.
> 
> And what expects people edje to be ?

above. they expect it to be a replacement for glade and/or qml etc. etc.

> 2013/12/16 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
> 
> > On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:48:37 +0100 dumblob <[email protected]> said:
> >
> > bob would not be bob if it was not tied to a single specific language. lua
> > (via
> > luajit) is at least the target we think is best. basically instead of
> > implementing stuff with edc to design ui elements, you use lua to do the
> > same.
> > lua is a data file. it is what implements the abstraction. the idea is
> > that bob
> > COMES with a small mountain of pre-made lua "bobjects" that already work
> > (and
> > build on top of each-other via inheritance or other mechanisms).
> >
> > the other side of bob is a c library with c apis. just like efl is today.
> > no
> > different. you expose state/data to bob from the c side (and bob can expose
> > data/state back to you). bob (the c library) handles the infra for this -
> > threading infra too, mainloop integration, sandboxing etc. etc.
> >
> > bob is fundamentally no different to edje in the very high level design.
> > the
> > difference is what is under the covers. how state is held/handled. how
> > state/data is exchanged/shared, how data is implemented (edc + embryo lua
> > atm
> > and bob would just be plain luajit with the above infra). bob is a result
> > of
> > lessons learned from edje over the years.
> >
> > edje was designed as nothing more than a "smart png with layers". eg a psd
> > or
> > xcf file really. a png that can resize intelligently (not just stretch) as
> > well
> > as throw in some simple states of that image (normal, activated, disabled)
> > and
> > some transitions. that was edje's design goal and intent.
> >
> > of course it was over-engineered for the job to ensure it covers that job
> > as
> > fully as it can. slight problem is that in the process of ensuring edje
> > does
> > its job, the over-engineering made it look like something different, and
> > that
> > is where suddenly it looks bad because people use it as "something
> > different"
> > then find all the creaky edge cases.
> >
> > bob is accepting that reality and trying to make something closer to what
> > people have expected edje to be.
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've recently come across https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/bob/ and I
> > > wonder if BÖB is going to be usable in other programming languages than
> > Lua
> > > (e.g. pure C without Lua, in Google Gos gorutines mapped to real threads,
> > > in pthreads generally etc.). It seems, the implementation will be tightly
> > > coupled with Lua and some specific form of IPC while abandoning simple
> > > interface for external bindings to languages with built-in parallelism.
> > I'm
> > > afraid it will not be possible to make e.g. such bindings for Dao (
> > > http://daovm.net/) which would support the DaoVM parallel
> > threads/tasklets.
> > >
> > > In other words, I'm not sure, if all "public" methods/functions of the
> > BÖB
> > > API will be thread-safe and fully independent from Lua. Maybe I'm wrong
> > > about the goal of EFL 2.0, but I think, tightly coupling only with Lua
> > will
> > > certainly limit the utilization of these great libraries.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have some more accurate and detailed information?
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > -- Jan Pacner
> > >
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