Chris Jones wrote: Sorry, missed your reply.
I guess what I'm asking is: the legacy-support package/project must have come into existence because of an interest in running code that requires functions not present in all Mac OS versions - does that interest cover Wayland too? I think that at some point we'll start seeing Wayland-only versions of applications from the Gnome universe. R. > > Not really sure what you are asking. legacy-support package is blind to > what ports might be using it. It just supplies functionality missing on > older OSes. If some hypothetical future wayland port needs these > functions, it presumably could use the PG in the same way as everything > else does. > > Chris > > On 27/09/2019 9:32 am, René J.V. Bertin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A quick question to the legacy-support devs: do you have any interest in >> whether or not these support functions (plus whatever else is needed and >> doable) could help building Wayland for Mac? >> >> FWIW, I brought up the idea of running Wayland with Jeremy H. back when he >> was still maintaining XQuartz, and he was very positive about the idea >> (including how it could improve X11 support - there's some sort of X11 server >> "backend" for Wayland). >> >> Proper Wayland support on Mac should also provide a more modern (and better >> integrated) platform for traditional Unix apps, possibly even for KDE/KF5 as >> an eco-system without need for patching Qt. >> >> R. >>
