On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:32:18 -0400 Kristian Høgsberg <hoegsb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the 0.95 release we start maintaining protocol and client API > stability. Going forward, we will try to not break any clients or > toolkits that are written agains the 0.95 protocol and client API. We > don't completely freeze yet, we'll do that with the 1.0 release, but > from now on we'll use the versioning mechanism when possible and only > break API if absolutely necessary. This also doesn't mean that the > protocol won't be extended in the future, just that we will not change > what's there now. > > To clarify, we're freezing the protocol, as described by > protocol/wayland.xml in the Wayland repository and the client API/ABI > defined by wayland-client.h and the headers generated from > wayland.xml. In particular, we're not freezing the protocol > interfaces defined by Weston and we're not freezing the wayland-server > API. Also, for the protocol interfaces (wl_drm) and libraries (gbm) > that are part of mesa, we'll release those with the upcoming mesa 8.1, > at which point we'll treat those as stable too. > > I'll follow up with a description of how the interface versioning and > deprecation is supposed to work. Hi, does this freeze include wl_shell and wl_shell_surface interfaces, which reside in wayland.xml? I thought those were considered non-core and in flux. Thanks, pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
