Hello. On 09/02/17 04:50, Simon Lees wrote: > > > On 02/09/2017 12:42 AM, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >> Hello. >> >> On 07/02/17 10:37, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 18:25:58 +1030 Simon Lees <[email protected]> said: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 02/06/2017 10:06 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Time-based releases keep the expectations if they are followed. Once >>>>> we miss the frame, we start to have this feature-based releases ("oh, >>>>> waited so long, can wait a bit more") and when people work >>>>> independently, they always have some in-flux work that could get in... >>>>> so at some point these guys will want to delay a bit more so their >>>>> work gets in as well... endless wait -- AKA e17/efl-1.0 >>>>> >>>>> IOW: just do it, and let's not miss the 3 month schedule next time. ;-) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> The problem is people (even some in Samsung) are writing software that >>>> depends on unstable eo, regardless of whether its wrong or right its >>>> happening. This means that every release there is an extra bunch of work >>>> for downstream projects to roll another release and then for distro's to >>>> package all theses changes. >> >> What are the offending packages you have to deal with here? As far as I >> know it neither Enlightenment nor Termonology nor Rage is using any EO >> based API. >> >> They only ones I know of are developer tools like Edi, Eventor and >> Efleete. Are these packaged in OpenSUSE? >> > > These are the main ones, there packaged but not in the main repo's and > won't be until eo is stable. I held of packaging them at all for a long > time but every indication was given that interfaces would be done for > 1.18 and I wanted to try them so I built packages. I can't remember if > ephoto also does, but I have test packages based off its last beta so if > it does it would probably also need another beta. efm/verne/jesus also > does but i'm only building that from git snapshots anyway so its less of > an issue. > > In short really the people already using eo and those that want the > regular 3 month releases back to a lesser extent really need to pitch in > and get the work finished.
OK. We will see in 3 months where we stand with eo interfaces and if enough important other changes have been added for a new release. regards Stefan Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
