On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Matthias Clasen <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hey, > > I've just had a chat with Kristian about the GNOME 3.12 and Wayland 1.5 > schedules. > > As you may or may not have seen, Wayland 1.4 was just released a few days > ago. Since this release was cooking, the wayland api was frozen for a > while, and a lot of the xdg-shell api that we need for 3.12 has been held > up. These patches will be landing now, and make it into Wayland 1.5. > > As Kristian told me, Wayland is switching to a 4 month release cycle going > forward. That is a little unfortunate for us, since it puts the next stable > release, 1.5, into May. There will however be an api-complete 1.4.91 > release that is scheduled for April 1st. This is only one week after our > target date for 3.12.0 (March 26), so I would suggest that we extend our > schedule by a week or two, so that we can rely on the Wayland 1.4.91 > release. > > This will of course still leave us without a Wayland release to build > against for all of our development cycle, which is not a great situation to > be in. As a workaround for this, we've discussed including xdg-shell.xml in > the gtk and mutter trees for the interim, so we can continue to build > against Wayland 1.3 while using the new xdg-shell api that will become part > of Wayland in 1.5. > Huh? xdg-shell.xml has always been in our tree, and I don't want to move it out into Wayland core for quite a while. It should remain in Weston, gtk+ and mutter for now. > Comments ? Alternative suggestions ? > > > Matthias > -- Jasper
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