On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:44:57 +1000 David Seikel <[email protected]> said:
> I can't answer all your questions, but I have some answers for you. > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:15:33 -0200 Silas Silva <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I may try using ELF. > > It's EFL, Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, you got it right in the > subject though. > > > 1. What exactly the fact the ELF is LGPL means for developing > > proprietary applications? May I link it statically? (Oh, after > > some time back in the development world, need to re-read licenses...) > > Most of EFL is BSD licensed. Some parts are LGPL though. I think there > is a mix of LGPL 2.1 and 3. we have lgpl 3 in core efl? c++ bindings are lgpl3. i guess epdf might be lgpl3 is you use the mupdf renderer. as such for libraries we have released or now have beta's of they are either bsd-2 clause or lgpl-2. > > 2. This game will probably not use Elementary. Since all the UI and > > the game itself will be customized, we are thinking on using nice > > features of Evas. An artist will use a GIMP-like program to > > develop user interfaces, characters, menus, etc. May I show layers > > of PNG images that have transparent regions? Any word on that? > > Evas supports transparency, but I'm not sure if it does at the image > level. > > > 3. MS Windows is the main target, but we want to develop it under > > GNU/Linux and NetBSD and deploy it under Windows. I see ELF are > > portable, right? What about "embedded" platforms like Android and > > iOS? > > I develop an embedded game using EFL, and like you I stopped using > Elementary. It was overkill for what I needed. I'm not doing Android > or iOS though, but built a custom linux from scratch. > > The evil library is specifically for porting EFL to Windows. > > > 4. What is the status of the C++ binding? Isn't recommended to use > > the ELF C API inside a C++ application, is it? > > There is one, I dunno it's status. > > > 5. How does ELF handles sound? Does it use lower level layers like > > ALSA, OSS or multi-thread OSS? > > There is a new thing for handling sounds in edje, but it's so new that > it's disabled by default. Have a look at multisense in edje. > > -- > A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants > coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
