Simon Ser:
> Hi,
> wl_display version is hardcoded to 1, because the client retrieves it
> before version negociation can happen.
> wl_registry_bind lets the client specify the version they want to bind
> to.
> wl_surface inherits its version from wl_compositor.
Yes, that's what happens for unspecified versions.
> For more info:
>
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch04.html#sect-Protocol-Versioning
Great. They probably managed to avoid the big bang somehow.
>> To me this looks like the generated C code would frequently make use of
>> unspecified interface versions, so that distro-maintainers would have to
>> intensively take care about the exact version in use for any single app
>> that makes use of libwayland-client, if he'd like to avoid random
>> app-shutdowns due to calls to random pointers (and/or compilation
>> errors) in addition to upstreaming recompiled versions for any such app.
> I don't know if it's just me, but your e-mails sound like rants and
> aren't making it very appealing for people to reply to. I think Pekka
> is being very patient and helpful here, and I'd appreciate if you could
> phrase your emails slightly differently. It's completely normal to
> not understand everything when you're getting to know something new.
> Thanks.
No need to count users with such impression, given such impressions can
be driven by incorrect assumptions.
For example, it's in no way my job to make an wl-talking app given a
contraint about programming language to use.
I just do not have much preference about wether or not to include
wl-support in future apps I probably won't write.
Isn't a collection of common pitfalls exactly what people working on
making wl better need? It's always difficult to identify why other
people's workflow is diffrent from your own.
What I can tell about wl now is that I haven't yet identified lines of
text or code about it, that might probably be of not so much relevance,
given specific sets of workflows. That's bad news to me, a
disappointment, because making things easier for the distant future was
my only motivation for focussing on wl a bit.
Gruss
Jan Bruns
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