sure, but it sounds more like "pre-alpha" than beta at this point
considering the amount of rewrite occurring.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Michael Blumenkrantz
> <michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't understand why we can't just remove all those from the public
> > headers. If we're still rewriting them so much that they need to be
> marked
> > as beta, they should not be released at all imo.
>
> Because we use it. That's the point. If you don't have the ability to
> mark some API as beta, you can't use some API and if you don't use
> them you don't know how good they are at the end. It also reduce the
> review of such API. So in the end you need a way to mark those API
> beta.
>
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> As the time comes, we are trying to move to a time based release. But
> >> as the discussion on Eo does show, it takes time to reach a consensus
> >> on some API and make it difficult to move forward on a release.
> >>
> >> So I have introduced a macro EFL_BETA_API_SUPPORT that is used to
> >> disable API that we won't support for the next release, but still want
> >> to push forward. The people that want to use those API should be
> >> advised that they will have no ABI/API stability on such API and will
> >> need to enable it manually. I have added a m4 macro that will add it
> >> to the config.h at configure time.
> >>
> >> The first API that I have just marked as beta is Eo. All program that
> >> use are now using efl_beta.m4 (elementary, expedite, clouseau). The
> >> goal is offcourse to have the least amount of those API in beta, but
> >> that is I think the only sane way to move forward.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> --
> >> Cedric BAIL
> >>
> >>
> >>
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