Ha, I don't know why I bother :-)

--Gustavo

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On 18/04/2013, at 08:34, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) 
<ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:15:52 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
> 
>> It doesn't have a way to load files (file selector), its controls are barely
>> usable by someone that never read the code, so on.
>> 
>> Basically it's polluting the installation of a LIBRARY. There should be a
>> video player app, maybe written in elementary with the basics of a video
>> player, usable controls and likely options such as subtitle, a file chooser
>> and be able to be launched from a ".desktop".
>> 
>> Also, for testing: why do we ever need to test a library in our systems if no
>> applications use it? If they use emotion, you use these applications as test.
>> It's like that for every thing other than EFL, you use totem to test the
>> gnome stuff, the kde player to test phonon, VLC player to test libvlc
> 
> first it has no need for a file selector. cmdline does it. you would argue
> mplayer is a useless test app as it has no file selector? as for the ui - its 
> a
> TEST app... its for testing the libs we just installed. we need MORE tests, 
> not
> fewer. we already have few enough as is.
> 
>> --Gustavo
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 17/04/2013, at 23:45, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
>> <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:34:12 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
>>> 
>>>> Most distros just package what you install. This is a poor test :-/
>>> 
>>> how is it poor? it lets you see if video (and audio) playback work, with
>>> multiple engines, have controls to play, pause etc. etc....
>>> 
>>> as for most distros - if they ship with emotion_test by default... what's
>>> wrong with that? if they don't LIKE it they can split it out. we don't have
>>> to do it for them. our installs should be full and useful. packagers can
>>> strip them down or split them up if they choose.
>>> 
>>>> --Gustavo
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>> On 17/04/2013, at 21:33, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
>>>> <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:44:57 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>>>>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Carsten Haitzler
>>>>>> <ras...@rasterman.com>wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:45:51 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com>
>>>>>>> said:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 17/04/13 15:38, Cedric BAIL wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hey Cedric et al,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Yo,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Is emotion_test supposed to be installed on the system? If so, does
>>>>>>>>>> it really belong to the system bin path?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Like elementary_test it is supposed to be installed on the system, but
>>>>>>>>> why is he ending in the system bin path...
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Cedric BAIL
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I meant /usr/bin OK, so emotion_test in an executable, not a test
>>>>>>>> suite. I'm just asking because it's built conditionally according to
>>>>>>>> EFL_BUILD_TESTS, and it should probably just build anyway, right?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> emotion_test has always been built and installed in the past - like
>>>>>>> elementary_test.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> i changed that on purpose. It sucks to have emotion_test in /usr/bin as
>>>>>> it's basically useless and also requires installing edj into /usr/share.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> elementary_test is more up to debate as it's larger. But shouldn't be
>>>>>> installed in an ideal world as well
>>>>> 
>>>>> why? these are basic tools that let you verify things actually work after
>>>>> installation. if you dont want them installed then split them up in
>>>>> packaging into some elm-debug-tools and emotion-dbug-tools package. all
>>>>> good packaging systems can split things up... 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
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