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  • From: Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] enlightenment, e17, e16
  • Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:35:56 +0100

Howdy all,

as users of Enlightenment DR17 certainly know, the original enlightenment spell has been split into new enlightenment spell and e17 spell in devel, test and stable-rc grimoire.

Stable grimoire still contains original enlightenment spell which offer users to choose DR16 or DR17 version.

(I was maintaining e-cvs grimoire [1] some time and on 2004-03-26 I created "e" section in standard grimoire and became its maintainer. On 2004-12-15 I added DR17 support to enlightenment spell. After one year on 2005-12-18 the DR17 support was removed from enlightenment spell and e17 spell was created. I as a maintainer did not agree with it.)

IMHO, new enlightenment spell is confusing because it installs stable DR16 version, it uses source e16-0.16.8.tar.gz, the binary file is /usr/bin/e16 and desktop file e16.desktop.

Spell e17 installs binary /usr/bin/enlightenment and enlightenment.desktop. When e17 become stable it should be probably renamed back to enlightenment. Users who want to install DR17 are confused now when they "cast enlightenment" and install "old" version. Moreover some dependencies are broken [2].

What next?
Personally I would merge e17 back into enlightenment spell. Seems Gentoo also use one enlightenment ebuild for DR16 and DR17 [3]. The next possibility is to rename new enlightenment spell to e16 spell (we would have e16 and e17 spells), or rename enlightenment to e16 and e17 to new enlightenment. All is better than current state.
What is your opinion?


[1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3977
[2] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10586
[3] http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo-portage/x11-wm/enlightenment/

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Ladislav Hagara







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