On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:57:09 +0100 haithem rahmani <haithem.rahm...@gmail.com>
said:

what's what we said too already above... the trend isn't new. it's already
there. it just maybe hasn't hit the "low end" yet.

> Hi,
> 
>  I contacted a Guy that did some patch for EFL/directfb asking him about his
> opinion since he is working on settop boxes too et guess what he told me.
> "Since our hardware is going to embed a *GPU*, I'm less and less
> interested in directfb support."
> 
> and I think that the 3D will be the trend starting from the next year even
> in the Settop Box World.
> 
> So personally I drop all my requests regarding the DirectFB/EFL requests.
> 
> you may kill it at any time :)
> regards.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Carsten Haitzler
> <ras...@rasterman.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:03:05 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> > <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
> >
> > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Iván Briano (Sachiel)
> > > <sachi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr>
> > wrote:
> > > >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Carsten Haitzler <
> > ras...@rasterman.com>
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:58:38 +0100 haithem rahmani
> > > >>> <haithem.rahm...@gmail.com> said:
> > > >>>> > however I built ecore with "disable-ecore-evas-software-buffer"
> > flag.
> > > >>>> > >
> > > >>>> > > shall enable it ?
> > > >>>> >
> > > >>>> > yes. why did you disable it? dont --enable or --disable UNLESS you
> > know
> > > >>>> > exactly
> > > >>>> > what you are doing. defaults do the right thing.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> well actually I want to have EFL built purely against DirectfB
> > > >>>>  that's why I disabled all option and enabled only the required
> > ones.
> > > >>>> I rebuilt ecore enabling the "ecore-evas-software-buffer" and I got
> > > >>>> ewebkit built.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> thanks for your support.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> forget dfb. the dfb engine suport in evas is very basic and by now
> > far
> > > >>> behind software or opengl. as such i'm thinking of killing off all
> > > >>> engines except software based ones or opengl. it's not worth the
> > > >>> maintenance. no one maintains or works on the dfb engine.
> > > >>
> > > >> I bet that gustavo will wake up and cry for such a statement !
> > > >
> > > > Finally something will wake up that lazy bastard!
> > >
> > > Nah! I don't care about DirectFB or software-16 anymore, we don't have
> > > any contract to support them, so they may go away anytime... I'm not
> > > putting my free time on such engine :-P
> > >
> > > OTOH, if people are looking to keep directfb/software-16 you can
> > > always contact us and we can bring them up to shape so raster will not
> > > nuke them ;-)
> >
> > if someone... good and dedicated does take either under wing and brings
> > them
> > "up to scratch" i'm willing to change my mind - but until then they have
> > targets painted onto them.  i won't nuke for 1.0 - but documentations says
> > that
> > they are in bad shape and are not to be relied on (read the README).
> >
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