On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 17:01:32 +0800 > Jonas Ådahl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Jonas Ådahl <[email protected]> > > --- > > clients/simple-damage.c | 2 +- > > clients/simple-egl.c | 2 +- > > clients/simple-shm.c | 2 +- > > clients/window.c | 2 +- > > desktop-shell/shell.c | 2 +- > > protocol/xdg-shell.xml | 2 +- > > 6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > Trying to remember all the reviews I just sent for this series, there > was not a single case which absolutely requires bumping the version > here. > > Not bumping the version would be very attractive, because it would let > wider choice between Gtk+ etc. versions for people who do already rely > on xdg-shell working. (Even if you might claim they shouldn't, but they > do.) > > Is it reasonable to expect that nothing will seriously break if we > don't bump the version, and people mix and match implementations before > and after this patch series? > > I do not care about build failures, those are easily patched, and I > assume projects carry their own copies of xdg-shell.xml anyway, so > upgrading means work in any case. All I care is the "binary" > compatilibity. Like said, changing error codes is also not a reason, > because errors are fatal anyway. > > If you do see the need for bumping the version, I really really hope we > can get it in before 1.8-alpha. It's such a big breakage, that I'd hate > to do it later when we are trying to stabilize a Weston release.
Already discussed this on IRC, but anyway: the reason for the bump was because the error conditions were moved. They change ABI, but only in an already fatal path, so lets drop that patch. Jonas > > Sorry for getting here sooner. > > > To anyone wondering: xdg-shell uses a special experimental versioning > scheme, where every bump literally breaks everything. It is not > following the normal Wayland interface versioning rules yet, and > likely won't be for quite a long time. > > > Thanks, > pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
