On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Just FYI and TWIMC (Darxus on IRC asked me to send this mail): Wayland > and Weston 0.95.0 are now in the "updates-tesing" repo for Fedora 18; > hence if you install the Fedora alpha that was released last week you > can just run "yum install weston" and simply start it afterwards to give > it a try. > > In a week from now I'll likely request that the packages gets moved to > the proper Fedora 18 repos, if no major issues show up; you can follow > the process in > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libxkbcommon-0.1.0-8.20120917.fc18,wayland-0.95.0-1.fc18,cairo-1.12.2-4.fc18.1,weston-0.95.0-3.fc18 > > Note, I'm not maintaining any of the packages in question withing > Fedora. I'm just a random and mostly inactive Fedora packager these days > that had a temporary interest in getting to know wayland a bit better, > that's why I took care of updating the packages. But OTOH, I might talk > to the maintainers of wayland and weston about shipping a recent git > snapshot once 0.95.0 left testing behind.
Very cool, thanks. We're planning to get 1.0 out in a couple of weeks so it might be worth waiting for that. > While I'm here two different things: > > * I found it confusing that > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-demos/ is the same repo as > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/ ; I assume it's done for > backwards compatibly to the days when weston was not what it is today -- > but I'm likely not the only one that will get confused when looking for > demo clients for wayland ... Yes, backwards compatibility, but I think you're right that it's time to remove that symlink. > * westons makefile afaics doesn't install any of the demos from the > clients/ dir in weston's source (like dnd, gears or smoke). Wouldn't it > be wise to make them installable more easily, then distributions like > Fedora could ship them in a package like "wayland-client-demos" (or > something like that); that could make experimenting with wayland more > fun for users Yeah, we may want to promote some of them like how we now install terminal as weston-terminal. thanks, Kristian > CU > knurd > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
