On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 10:20:28 +0200 Olivier Fourdan <four...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > weston-info seems like a generally useful tool, even outside of weston, and > gives interesting information on the compositor, supported interfaces, > outputs, inputs... > > Only thing that seems fairly specific is the presentation timing client > protocol. > > I think it could be beneficial to move that tool outside of weston and make > it a standalone package (e.g. wayland-info) that people could use to debug > Wayland issues (like for example, just yesterday someone was asking on irc > about outputs not being detected in mutter under Wayland, using xrandr, > whereas weston-info gives the output configuration/layout directly from the > compositor). Hi Olivier, this is a good idea indeed. Originally weston-info was needed in Weston repository, because it was useful in reporting specific information from extensions being developed in Weston. Nowadays we have wayland-protocols for such extensions. However, since *-info depends on wayland-protocols, it cannot be put into the Wayland repository, as that would create a cyclical dependency. So, a new repository seems to be needed. Let the bikeshedding for the name begin! ;-) (Is it expected to host other universal Wayland tools?) "wayland-info" would be fine by me, for both repo and tool name. Thanks, pq
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