On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:01:37PM +1000, David Seikel wrote: >On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:54:44 +1100 Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In the year 2015, of the month of October, on the 15th day, Markus >> Törnqvist wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:34:30AM +1000, David Seikel wrote: >> > >I would have thought something that starts with >> > >"i-really-know-what-i-am-doing" requires someone that actually >> > >knows what they are doing. Deep magic that is only documented at >> > >the source level.
>> > Well, yeah, but... What is it for? >> Are you sure you want to know? Can you handle the truth?! >> Well, OK ... it sets a variable called "really_know", in E's main >> function, to a boolean true value. >> There, the truth is out now. Remember, with great knowledge, comes >> great responsibility. > >lol > >Actually, what it does is to enable a bunch of stuff that might be >still alpha API, hence the need to really know what you are doing. It Ah, nice, thanks for the reply :) Wonder what the psychotic switches are for then :) [...] >--enable-i-really-know-what-i-am-doing-and-that-this-will-probably- > >(deep breath before I say the rest of the name) > >break-things-and-i-will-fix-them-myself-and-send-patches-aaa > >The -aaa bit at the end is to outwit people that set this then >forget about it. It gets changed every now and then, which breaks the >build, so these people then have to figure out why, and get reminded >that they have it turned on, and what they should do about it if other >stuff breaks. Might prompt them to turn it off, long after they needed >it. This is an interesting approach. Basic dogma says software developers should be real professional and document their switches and all that, but I suppose Enlightenment has gotten enough standing with the DIY-minded crowd that this is warranted. >In my case, I use alpha APIs coz I'm developing a 3D application that >uses the new EO and Evas_3D stuff. This is a huge project that wont be Can you tell more about it? ;) Thanks! -- mjt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
