ok. interacting with promises... these are just a mess.
1. the value thing is just odd. 2. they are complex to set up inside our api (setting them up setting cancel cb's and more) 3. they totally screw with what eo and interfaces was all about - making the api EASIER to use. promises make it harder. why harder? longer lines of code with more parameters and more special casing... but the WORST... void _cb_promise(void *data, void *vaue, Eina_Promise *promise) that's a promise cb Eina_Bool _cb_event(void *data, const Eo_Event *event) and that's an event cb. they are different. eo events were meant to simplify and unify our callback handling. to have a single cb signature. now promises break that. this is just bad. i wasn't sold on promises. i was skeptical, but whatever... but now i am seeing they are visibly making things worse. code is harder to write, harder to read, harder to maintain, harder to get right. now we have timeouts that cannot repeat. no - creating a new timer in the cb is not repeating. it has to repeat with the "zero time" being the time when the timer was ticked off, not "now". please - everyone. take a look at promises and how they are used. forget all of the "but node.js has them" and all the "i can chain promises" and so on. the BASIC usage of them is harder now in efl. what to do? well... minimize their use for one. do not use them unless you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. also promises should become eo objects with event cb's so they work just like everything else. i can ref, unref, delete and whatever them like everything else. right now i think promises are just not in a shape to use or ship. they need a lot more work. i think we need to drop them for efl 1.18 and defer for efl 2.0 -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
