On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:55:43 +0300 Markus Törnqvist <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? ;) https://github.com/onefang/SledjHamr is a reboot of the Second Life / OpenSim server and client. Written from scratch using EFL, C, and Lua. -- 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
