On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:50:31 -0500 Drew DeVault <s...@cmpwn.com> wrote:
> On 2017-12-28 8:38 PM, Emil Velikov wrote: > > On 28 December 2017 at 18:05, Drew DeVault <s...@cmpwn.com> wrote: > > Surely you are familiar that weston provides libweston with somewhat > > similar functionality, right? > > > > Since your email is aimed at wayland-devel, it might be better to > > point out what part of libweston design does not fit your needs? > > > > In my (somewhat limited) experience developers seem quite open about > > libweston. I cannot see any proposals from you - did I miss them, or > > you simply felt uncomfortable posting those to the list? > > I briefly addressed our concerns with libweston in the paper. They boil > down to problems that generally arise from libweston being refactored > out of an existing compositor rather than being made from the ground up > as a support library. We didn't find it flexible enough or applicable to > niche compositor designs, and we found the codebase rather crufty with > lots of design problems from Weston bubbling up through libweston. Hi, I agree with Drew here, totally, that libweston is not (yet) really a library but just the heart of Weston put aside. There is a lot to be done before it could be good library. > I had thought the libweston approach is fundamentally flawed and > supposed it'd be better to start from scratch. Comparing the two > libraries today, I conclude that my assessment was correct. Most who > work on wlroots agree that its approach is much better than libweston at > all levels. I think libweston is a fine effort for improving Weston in > its own right, but for building new compositors the wlroots approach > wins out. I understand this decision. The goals are different. It also allowed you to move much faster than improving libweston given the shortage of review bandwidth Weston has. Thanks, pq
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