It has been discussed on the ML (thread: "[RFC] rename efl_self") and
IRC, and has been decided we should rename it to this in order to avoid
confusion with the already established meaning of self which is very
similar to what we were using it for, but didn't have complete overlap.
Kudos to Marcel Hollerbach for initiating the discussion and
fighting for it until he convinced a significant mass. :)
This commit breaks API, and depending on compiler potentially ABI.
@feature
The use of low-level interfaces such as Efl.Io.Reader and
Efl.Io.Writer are not that user-friendly as they can handle partial
data.
Classes such as Efl.Io.Copier makes them easy to use, but they need a
reader (source) or writer (destination) and in our examples we used
fixed buffers or some existing streams (stdin/stdout/stderr,
networking...).
However, if interactively we need to produce some data to be sent,
such as implementing some networking protocols, we'd have to write our
own Efl.Io.Reader and Efl.Io.Writer classes to handle the buffering.
Not anymore! With Efl.Io.Queue you can write stuff to it and it will
buffer to memory. Once stuff is read, it will automatically remove
those bytes from buffer.
Tom Hacohen
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri