On 15-02-17 09:35, Tom Hacohen wrote: > On 16/02/15 21:38, Boris Faure wrote: > > Hi fellow developers, > > > > I want to add to an api in the efl. It is not important to know what it > > is about but I want to use it in terminology. It should be included in > > efl-1.14 if everything goes according to my plan. In terminology, I've > > got the following: > > #if (EFL_VERSION_MAJOR > 1) || (EFL_VERSION_MINOR >= 14) > > [code that uses that new api] > > #endif > > I modified my efl source code with that new api and installed it. But > > the current efl version is 1.13.99 since we're in dev mode. My '#if' in > > terminology does not apply here. I can not test for 1.13.99 using > > EFL_VERSION* because EFL_VERSION_MICRO is not defined. > > > > What is the correct way to handle that situation? > > Having EFL_VERSION_MINOR >= 13 is not acceptable as I am sure I will > > forget to change it. > > > > Greetings, > > First of all, it needs to be &&, not || :P
Please, read it again :) Yes, it only works because there wasn't any 0.14. > Second of all, even that is not a good solution because you can't be > sure the API will really be included as is in .14 and you can > accidentally release it before .14 and then we'll change the API or > something. You probably need to have a manual review anyway. > > Best is probably have a centralised place where you define a macro for > the new feature (terminology_private.h or whatever) which also has a > #warning or something to make sure you revisit it. Even if you check for > >= 1.13.99 it won't help, as you might have an older version from git > to work against. > > Another thing you could do, but is not really safe, is rely on VREV, > which is a sequential number since the beginning of the current branch > (similar to svn rev), but it's unsafe because you can have the same > number in a different branch (let's say 1.13 stable). No perfect solution :( -- Boris Faure Pointer Arithmetician
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
