From: Michael 'M. L. <mi...@va...> - 2009-04-29 15:10:57
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On Tuesday 09 December 2008 13:47:13 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:34:03 +0100 "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" > > <mi...@va...> babbled: > > > do not consider elementary and guarana separate entities, they're for > > > now, but we'll merge soon, just need time, but xmas is there for this > > > kind of thing ;-) > > > > Wow, that's good news! > > quietly behind the scenes we have agreed we need to merge and be 1 - they > are close enough in structure and gaols that this is not a technical > problem - and it's definitely not a political one. we both very much want a > merge. it is simply that both started development in separate pools for > separate goals and reasons that they are not the same right now - but this > will change, so expect in the future to see a merge. the real questions are > more like "what the hell will we do with the api?" ie grn_* vs elm_* ... or > will we maintain both or use #defines (for now) to at least keep codebases > mostly building with minor changes... who knows - but the will to merge is > there on both sides. the technical ability is there as they share the same > core infra - edje and evas, and even the same packing "concepts" with evas > min/max/align/weight properties. I wonder what's the status of that merge? Cheers, Mickey. |