Great! Thanks for all the efforts, efl b0rkers! And special thanks to Raster for the release job.
Let's break efl for another release! Daniel Juyung Seo (SeoZ) On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>wrote: > = EFL 1.8 is Out = > > We are pleased to announce that **EFL** and **Elementary** 1.8 are now out > and > available for download. Also **Emotion Generic Players** and **Evas Generic > Loaders** are available too. > > == Download == > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-1.8.0.tar.gz > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/elementary/elementary-1.8.0.tar.gz > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/emotion_generic_players/emotion_generic_players-1.8.0.tar.gz > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/evas_generic_loaders/evas_generic_loaders-1.8.0.tar.gz > > ---- > > = What's New = > > Many major things have happened to EFL in the past year since EFL 1.7 first > came out. The usual has been done in fixing bugs, optimizing speed and > memory > footprint, and much much more. These are just some hilights of what has > been > done since 1.7, so don't take this as a complete list. Take a look at the > NEWS > files for more expansive information if you want that. > > == Merged EFL tree == > > We have merged **Ecore**, **Edje**, **Eet**, **Eeze**, **Efreet**, > **Eina**, > **Eio**, **Embryo**, **Emotion**, **Ethumb**, **Evas** and **Evil** into a > single **EFL** package (as you can see above these are no longer there, but > inside the EFL distribution). We also added in **Eldbus**, **EPhysics**, > and > **Escape**. > > **Eldbus** a replacement for **E_dbus**, which is still able to be built in > it's 1.7 form but will no longer be updated or maintained, but still > functions > against EFL 1.8 if you depend on it. > > **EPhysics** is a new library that glues in the Bullet physics engine into > EFL > to allow you to make use of an entire physics engine easily and simply in > your > creations. **Edje** also makes use of this allowing your themes to use it > too. > > == New Theme for Elementary == > > **Elementary** now has the same dark look at Enlightenment 0.7 debuted > with. It > looks far sleeker and more consistent now. This theme also contains all the > theme elements for Enlightenment too, unifying themes into a single entity > now. > > == Office document loading for Generic Loaders == > > **Evas Generic Loaders** now can harness Libreoffice to generate > thumbnails for > common office document formats. > > == Wayland support majorly improved == > > **EFL** now has fairly complete support for everything in Wayland 1.3. As a > client it does most things right and is certainly usable now for day to day > usage. > > == Async rendering in Evas == > > Software rendering in Evas now works asynchronously by default. That means > that > while your app is doing application logic in your main-loop a background > thread > is also handling rendering for Evas. This should reduce frame-drops and > stutters allowing you to make use of more CPU cores as well. > > == Object model and safety == > > Inside of EFL a new Object model is being created, called Eo. This starts > to > unify the ad-hoc object systems EFL has had and begins a journey on the > way to > EFL 2.0, providing interfaces, multiple-inheritance, unified callback > prototypes, introspection and weak and strong references among other > things. > Currently Eo is not considered Stable as an API, but functions solidly. It > also > adds benefits of removing direct pointer access to existing EFL objects and > puts them behind a table indirection which should remove any crashes when > it > comes to accessing invalid object handles. Object pointers are no longer > real > pointers, but are IDs in a table. For compatibility we place these new IDs > into > the old object pointers. > > == Audio support == > > Ecore Audio is now there. Only with an Eo API, so currently unstable > (API-wise), but working solidly. It is used by Edje now to provide the > ability > for theme files to have sound effects. > > ---- > > = Building and Dependencies = > > If you have an existing EFL or Elementary install, you may wish to delete > its > header files and libraries before compiling and installing to avoid > possible > conflicts during compilation. If you are compiling the above, please > compile > them in the following order: > > # efl > # elementary > # emotion_generic_players > # evas_generic_loaders > > Please refer to the respective README files in each release for a full > list of > dependencies, explanations on configure flags and other relevant > information > (Just scroll down to see the README already displayed nicely). > > * [[ https://phab.enlightenment.org/diffusion/EFL | EFL ]] > * [[ https://phab.enlightenment.org/diffusion/ELM | Elementary ]] > * [[ https://phab.enlightenment.org/diffusion/EGP | Emotion Generic > Players ]] > * [[ https://phab.enlightenment.org/diffusion/EGL | Evas Generic > Loaders ]] > > Recommended dependencies are for all of the above are: > > * bullet > * libpng > * libjpeg > * gstreamer (0.10) (ensure you have all the gstreamer codecs you > need/want) > * zlib > * lua (5.1 or 5.2) > * libtiff > * openssl > * curl > * dbus > * libc > * fontconfig > * freetype2 > * fribidi > * libpulse > * libsndfile > * libx11 > * libxau > * libxcomposite > * libxdamage > * libxdmcp > * libxext > * libxfixes > * libxinerama > * libxrandr > * libxrender > * libxss > * libxtst > * libxcursor > * libxp > * libxi (2.2 or newer) > * libgl (opengl/glx or opengl-es2/egl) > * giflib > * util-linux (limbount + libblkid) > * systemd / libudev > * harfbuzz > * systemd > * libwebp > * vlc (libvlc) > * poppler > * libraw > * libspectre > * librsvg > > It is suggested you add the following options when building EFL to get a > better > experience: > > --enable-xinput22 \ > --enable-multisense \ > --enable-systemd \ > --enable-image-loader-webp \ > --enable-harfbuzz > > On linux to get framebuffer support you may want to also do: > > --enable-fb > --disable-tslib > > If you want wayland support also add: > > --enable-wayland > > At runtime if you want thumbnailing for DOC/PPT/XLS etc. files also > provide: > > * libreoffice > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. 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