On Fri, 13 May 2011 15:47:20 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Wido <wido...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Excelent!!! but what is the first impact for non-developers users? > > > > End Users = more image formats supported, like gimp (xcf) and pdf. > > Proprietary Users = you can use Evas (declared BSD, really LGPL due Eina) in > your proprietary application and use GPL library loaders as they're out of > process, thus no license linkage problems. well not really. evas doesn't become lgpl because it links to an lgpl lib :) but the point is still right - apps are unaffected by license of external generic loaders, so we can expand the # of formats evas can load in the "gpl" direction AND in the "it's complex and/or unstable" direction (html, ppt/doc/xls etc. loaders and so on). it basically makes it all possible (but as you noted - there is a cost). > General Users = safety, if any of these loaders crash or hung, the main > program/process will not crash. actually... hanging can be a problem as evas opens a pipe and waits on blocking input. it has no timeout, so if it hangs, evas using process will too. you can just kill the external loader process pid and the app will unhang (and then load fails) - so its recoverable, and probably a sign to uninstall that specific external loader and file a bug. :) > Problems: this is not as fast as a native loader, so we'll not move every > (if any!) loader to be external. yeah. that's its major Achilles heel. it has a speed and overhead penalty. > > -- > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > http://profusion.mobi embedded systems > -------------------------------------- > MSN: barbi...@gmail.com > Skype: gsbarbieri > Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
