dimmus / efl

toward EFL 2.0

Enlightenment Foundation Library

Personal goals (wishes :)

• get complete wayland support in EFL
• push forward EFL objects support (i mean, eo)
• documentation
• speed and size optimization

Actual problems (my personal drivers :)

• huge problem with existing development documentation (see doc here). It's in some places outdated and user level only.
• some libs naming is too esoteric. Most of the names (understand like a lib purpose) are non-transparent for newcomers. In combination with the lack of development documentation, the start of EFL development becomes a swamp.

So, ... my intermidiate goal

• deep dive, understand and master EFL internals

Tasks

To understand something, i should break it! So, to begin with ..

• create transparent lib names. Systematic renaming. See changelog_api
• general and consistent EFL_* (re)naming (like EFL_UNUSED, Efl_Bool, libefl_core_*, libefl_shared, etc).
• create test system without check usage (it was a bad idea, we need infastructure to init some stuff before test itself)
• create diverse documentation: man files, manuals, wiki, coockbooks, api, etc. Some templates from different projects are provided.
• make thorough code analysis system. Some templates from different projects are provided.
• optimization: flags, architectures, compilers, memory management. It needs detailed analysis of neediness (by build and run times, sizes on disk and in memory, etc).
• make separate development tools. Some templates were provided.
• meson build system update. It's too large, so, may be try to atomize it.
• automatic and consistent formatting: create rules and apply clang-format
• use the power of the github CI system

Current tasks

See TODO file.

Pull requests, sugestions, and any discussions are welcome.

Build

To build, i use helper script tools/utils_maintenance/build.sh. For convenience, create a symlink to run in the source root folder:

ln -s tools/utils_maintenance/build.sh run

Basic usage:

./run — run without arguments to show all options

./run s — run meson default setup

./run s dev — run meson setup with dev options (see build.sh)

./run c — compile with default setup

./run c dev — compile with dev options

./run cc — continue compilation (without build cleanup and reconfiguration)

./run t — run tests

./run f — apply formatting

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