On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 12:35:56 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 03:19:07 +0200 Daniel Christopher Würl > <[email protected]> said: > > > Hello, > > > > as a long-term e16 user who migrated to fvwm some eight months ago, > > I'm toying with the idea of installing e19. > > > > Since I currently run debian 8 this would be a time consuming task, > > so I'd like to ask some questions before I spend some hours in > > vein ;) > > > > How stable is the API / theming API ? > > I really love to create my own themes, but I'm not motivated to fix > > them over every minor revision. Same goes for EFL, I'm perfectly > > happy to hack together some tools I need, but I'm not ready to > > adapt them to a moving target all the time. > > > > How long does a release of enlightenment "live" ? > > there were some minor breaks (little things changed) between e17 and > e18. we're keeping things stable since then though theme expands and > thus there are new things to theme if you want a complete look, so > over time it requires work anyway to keep up. > > > Mostly part of above questions, but having to compile the whole > > efl / enlightenment stack every other month would be a bit > > off-putting. > > compiling efl is easy. if you bother once to write the procedure in a > script and then just re-run it every time. the script clones/updates > git repos and walks through n dirs re-building each one maybe with > specific options. if you bother doing it just once for yourself, then > everything after that is gravy. what that script has may vary from > person to person, distro to distro, but the raw content of it is on > the enlightenment.org docs on how to get/build e and efl. i scripted > my builds so long ago i'ts not funny. i just don't get this "oh but > it's SOOOOOOOOOO hard" line. it's an excuse for not having simply > written down the commands in a script for yourself ONCE. i just use > my scripts and for me it's: > > svup.sh > rbe.sh > > (yes my svup.sh script was from svn days - i modified it for git - i > have 2 as i want to update separately to building). Many of the EFL developers have their own build script in git. I have one in the Enlightenment git at https://git.enlightenment.org/admin/devs.git/tree/developers/onefang/build_efl.lua Which tries to compile most of the stuff we host in git. Other developers have their build scripts in the admin/devs area of the git as well. > the biggest bit of work is getting your dependencies installed > (once). that is the real work. not rebuilding or updating. Yep, a build script wont help with that, as it's generally only done once. Most of the dependencies are listed on the https://www.enlightenment.org/download page that includes basic build instructions. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
