2014-08-28 10:54 GMT+01:00 Stefan Schmidt <[email protected]>:

> Hello.
>
> On 28/08/14 11:43, Daniel Kolesa wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > after some discussion we've decided to disable the C++ bindings during
> the
> > 1.12 development cycle. The reason for this step is frequent breakages of
> > the bindings because of changes and new features in Eolian.
> >
> > The plan is thus to disable them for the time being (developers and
> testers
> > can still re-enable them using the appropriate configure flag) and enable
> > by default for actual 1.12 release (as Eolian should hopefully be stable
> by
> > that point).
> >
> > For regular EFL users, the generated bindings as they are now are
> unusable.
> > They still need a whole lot more work and that can still be done even if
> > they're disabled by default. The only purpose of this step is to simplify
> > development for everyone else (who doesn't use C++) - including me (as I
> > maintain the Eolian library and have to frequently update the C++
> generator
> > just to make it not break) and Tom (as he's working on the new EFL
> > interfaces and Eolian_Cxx would very possibly become a source of frequent
> > breakages as new Eolian features come into more use).
> >
> > Unless any serious and well reasoned objections are made, I'll disable
> them
> > within the next few days.
> None from my side besides that if you want them enabled for 1.12 by
> default it would be good to enable them also in the last week of the
> second merge window.
>
> This would avoid problems when all the breakage shows up only during
> the last three weeks of fixing things up.
>

I had the same thought. I just didn't mention it.


>
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt
>
>
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