On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Pierre Couderc <pie...@couderc.eu> wrote:
> On 12/18/2017 05:28 PM, Stephen Houston wrote:
>>
>> "If we are to de-prioritise the new API at the cost of further development
>> of legacy APIs then we are prolonging the period of time in which we
>> request developers to use an API which we are intending to discontinue."
>>
>> I don't disagree.  But if we de-prioritize the old API at the cost of
>> furthering the development of new API then we are encouraging the
>> development of unstable apis that are not complete and won't have a stable
>> release for X amount of time.  Which isn't exactly ideal either.  I don't
>> think either option sounds great and it's going to get to a point of
>> "Don't
>> use that api, it will be discontinued, but don't use that api either
>> because it is unstable, incomplete, and will change".  New developers will
>> look at that say... uh... okay so what do I use? Something other than EFL.
>>
>>
> I am glad to have developed my first application under efl (eegrep =
> multidimensional grep).
> With legacy API.
> Should I regret not having used Gnome ?

The more there are EFL apps, the  better.

But the project should also do advertising (phoronix, /., linuxfr.org
for french, reddit, lwn, etc...) imho

Vincent

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