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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Feb 28, Andrew Stitt [afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com] wrote:
> > Maybe have the 'enlightenment' spell deprecated in favor of an e16
> > spell. Then have an e16-profile and an e17-profile, and have e-profile
> > ask then depend on one or the other. And lastly have the enlightenment
> > spell be a fake-spell that asks the user what they'd like, then depends
> > on either e16 or e17. Thoughts?
>
> I'm not a big user of profile spells but in general this makes the most
> sense to me.  If we wanted to get fancy we could have the fake e/e-profile
> spells check the old spell version's stored preferences and default to the
> right version of e.
>
> > Im also curious how the enlightenment team sees e16 vs e17, do they
> > think of e17 as a major overhaul to e16, or is e17 a new piece of
> > software related to e16 by name alone? Or somewhere in-between?
>
> e17 is a rewrite.  The main dev team is definitely behind e17 over e16.
> e16 didn't have any active work done on it til the last year or so when kwo
> took it over.  However, given that e17 still lacks a lot of basic things, I
> think we should stick to defaulting new e installations to e16.

If others (mainly Ladislav) think this is a good idea I can go
implement this (being as I'm the one who made the 'mess' ;)).

Idea so far (AFAIK):
  * Rename enlightenment to e16
  * Keep e17 named e17
  * Write an e16-profile package
  * Write an e17-profile package
  * Have the e-profile package look at current variables and
    'convert' the installation to e16|e17. Normal e-profile
    install will allow either or both e16/e17 installed.

What to do with the current enlightenment spell? Some may say to have
that be e17, but then when e18 comes out we'll run into the same
problems (when e17 binaries/scripts become renamed to e17 instead of
enlightenment, as e16 is now doing, and e18 has the name
enlightenment).

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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