On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We could put checks like this in edje_object_part_swallow. But I can't > > > help to > > > think was programmed to work this way for a reason I ignore. > > > > All ELFs are written in this way, without error checking and reporting, i > > think it's for performance reason and I like it :) > > I sincerely hope that this was an ironic statement. The complete lack of > error > handling in the EFL (well, apart from image loading) is dooming like the > sword of damocles. I'm afraid as EFL gets more popular this will be a _major_ > hindrance for professional adoption and I'd really like us to revisit this > before it's too late (read: stable APIs).
I very much agree with Mickey, as I said before. While I do like the library not breaking for minor purposes, I think that most "silent" ignore of errors is bad. I'd like to see most of the calls to return at least a boolean with Yes/No. However I _REALLY DOUBT_ someone from core will have the time to go through the API and change methods to use that, so we could find out a newbie that wants to contribute, this is a good way to get started! Someone would like to try? This also holds for bindings, at least proto/python-efl would need to be adapted to check for such errors. PS: Evas and some other parts have magic checks on library entry points, they can be configured by setting MAGIC_DEBUG (on by default) and then using env-vars EVAS_DEBUG_SHOW and EVAS_DEBUG_ABORT. So this kind of check _IS_ already done in some parts of the code, is not about blindly going and replace all functions to return Evas_Bool. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi Embedded Systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (81) 9927 0010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
