On 12/09/2010 04:02 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > On 12/09/2010 12:53 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 09/12/2010 5:52 AM, Matthew Dowle wrote: >>> Weyland is the project to remove X11 from Linux. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server) >>> >>> Ubuntu chiefs have said they support Weyland and aim to include it >>> in the next release (April 2011 == version 11.04 == Natty Narwhal). >>> >>> Fedora developers apparenly said that they are likely to adopt >>> Weyland too. >>> >>> I don't know if packages in R such as rgl would need changing to >>> work with Weyland, or perhaps R itself, if at all. However it seems >>> that Linux is moving away from X11. > >> If X11 calls aren't supported in Wayland, then rgl won't work there. The >> Wayland people will need to write a replacement for the glx interface to >> OpenGL, and an rgl user will need to write the code to use this in rgl >> (i.e. equivalents of the x11gui.* and x11lib.* files in the rgl >> sources). rgl is designed to work on multiple systems (currently >> Windows, Cocoa in OSX, and X11), but it's not trivial to implement a new >> one. > > While we are at X11 and Wayland - are there any other aspects of R which > would need to be rewritten or adapted? I guess, a new graphic device > might be necessary? > > It might be an important exercise to find this out as it will be > relevant for all the Ubuntu users in the medium future (probably earlier?) > > I send this to the r-sig-debian as well, as it might be more relevant where. > > Rainer
My reading of the article on ArsTechnica about this topic is that X will still be available in a somewhat similar way to how X is available on Mac OS X. Also the phase in for switching to Wayland on Ubuntu is ~ 4 years as a incremental project in each release before making it the default. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/11/linux-beyond-x-shuttleworth-contemplates-wayland.ars Thanks, Alex ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
