On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:39:39 +0530 "Nautiyal, Ankit K" <ankit.k.nauti...@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon Ser, > Thanks for your comments. > I am also not sure about whether the protocol belongs here or not, and > that's why I had first proposed the same in weston, along with the > implementation and the client application - > Merge request: > _https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/merge_requests/48_ > But I do think, its a good point to start the discussion. > > Pekka, Daniel, I think we had some discussion about it in IRC as to > wayland-extension. Does it make sense to have this in wayland-protocols? Hi Ankit, obviously there debating about the scope of wayland-protocols, and I think it is getting to a level where each camp just denies everyone else's proposal. We need to have a serious discussion of the scope, remove the extensions that don't belong there, and include those that do. But this thread is not for that discussion. It is always possible to carry a protocol extension in Weston repository and install it from there, and if it seems appropriate, promote it to wayland-protocols at any time. The only catch here is that extensions in Weston need to be namespaced to weston, and the names will change when moved to wayland-protocols. Such interface name changes are to be expected even in wayland-protocols, because they are part of the documented process of how extensions evolve in wayland-protocols. The final name change happens when an extension is declared stable, even if there are no other changes to it. IOW, there is nothing here that would stop you or Scott from co-operating and developing the extension and landing it in Weston. Putting it in Weston saves the politics for later. Thanks, pq > On 1/28/2019 4:53 PM, Simon Ser wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for your patch. However, I don't think it belongs to > > wayland-protocols. > > wayland-protocols isn't designed for all common Wayland protocols. For > > instance, > > the IVI shell isn't there, and has a similar use-case (although not limited > > to > > closed systems). Also some other protocols like layer-shell have been > > rejected. > > > > I think a Weston patch in protocols/ would be better suited. This would > > allow > > protocol consumers to share the protocol while not including it in a > > repository > > where it won't be used because a large majority of wayland-protocols users > > don't > > have closed systems. > > > > That said, wayland-protocols' scope is ill-defined, so it's not like it's > > easy > > to decide whether it belongs here or not. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Simon Ser > > https://emersion.fr > > _______________________________________________ > > wayland-devel mailing list > > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel >
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