On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>>>>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
>>>>> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Vincent Torri 
>>>>> > <vincent.to...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> Hey
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> another mail for the status on Windows:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> 1) cserve2 is not even compiling as shm_open() and (worse) fork() are
>>>>> >> used in a part of the code that should be OS independent. If cserve2
>>>>> >> is going to be e required dep for the next evas, i fear that the
>>>>> >> Windows development will stop.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > You were supported to do a port of cserve2 to Windows or other Non-Linux
>>>>> > platforms:
>>>>>
>>>>> and you were supposed to put code specific to linux in separate files,
>>>>> which is not the case. You even don't check that the functions you use
>>>>> are available in configure.ac. For example, shm_open does not exist on
>>>>> OpenBSD (a quick search on google and i found that :
>>>>> http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/about60282.html and note that i don't
>>>>> know anything about those functions, so the link is to help you,
>>>>> that's all)
>>>>
>>>> Actually the lazy approach of "let's see who will complain and when".
>>>> It took months, but it finally happened :-)
>>>
>>> are you kidding ??? I've already spotted those problems to you or
>>> Sachiel or another one at Profusion (i can't  remember who) before !!
>>> Nothing was done to fix that.
>>
>> at that time the software was under development. It's still maturing
>> and not enabled by default not even on Linux.
>>
>> Plan was to get it enabled by default on Linux (done), then make E17
>> enable the server by default (post e17 release, if E17 starts the
>> daemon and sets the envvar, then apps should use it automatically).
>> Then we have enough stability to port it to other platforms.
>
> that's precisely what we should not do... Because you'll write code
> specific to linux, it will be released with no possibility to change
> the API, and the port for other platforms will be just ugly hacks. As
> usual.

what you mean? There is no API in there. It's all internal


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