Re: [glam-devel] Need for detailed log of changes

[Manu S. <ms...@xr...>]

Hi Chetan... some answers to your questions

Chetan Dandekar wrote:
> As requested in the last mail, I really need the 
 > detailed information / log-file about changes, fixes
 > and additions

You can access all of the change log files for each package by reading 
the following file(s):

/usr/share/doc/<package_name>/changelog.Debian

We describe all the major changes in there... and we release each of 
these files in the package contents for every release that we perform.

> In the new release a 2D layout manager gets added by 
 > default, which  shuts off depth/z value information. If I knew
> this particular change, I would not have wasted so much time.

I'm sorry you spent so much time tracking that problem down. We do our 
best to document all the changes. However, between releases upwards of 
50-500 changes such as the one that you describe are implemented and we 
cannot document at that level of granularity and meet all the deadlines 
imposed on us.

To put it in perspective, that amount of documentation would require an 
extra day of development per developer, per release... which would mean 
that we spend 4 developer days making sure that you don't spend 1/2 a 
developer day debugging a mis-communication. Its more efficient this 
way, even though inevitably there will be snags such as this along the way.

Besides, you would spend half your day just reading the changelog if we 
were to implement full-disclosure changelogs... and nobody wants that :)

> In GmPanel::render2dSelect(GmTypes::RenderOptionType renderOptions), 
> GmPanel's name is not pushed on
> the name stack, so even if a GmPanel is picked, its name is absent from 
> the namestack and it can not be sent an event.

This is because panels are not interactive objects and there is no 
reason for a panel to recieve events. If you do want this functionality, 
subclass from GmPanel and overload the render2dSelect() method.

-- manu

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