On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:12:01PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On 6 April 2016 at 07:56, Jonas Ådahl <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:55:42AM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > >> > So, a new repository seems to be needed. Let the bikeshedding for the > >> > name begin! ;-) > >> > > >> > (Is it expected to host other universal Wayland tools?) > >> > >> Very good question, do we have any other universal tool of general use like > >> weston-info? > >> > >> I would be fine with a dedicated repo ( > >> Xorg tend > >> s > >> to use one repo per tool > >> , e.g. > >> xdpyinfo > >> , xdriinfo, xwininfo, xprop within xorg/app) so maybe we could have > >> "wayland/tools/ > >> wayland-info > >> " > >> ? > >> > >> "wayland-info" would be fine by me, for both repo and tool name. > > > > Just a fly by shed color thought. If we in the future want to add more > > generic debug tools (for example something like xev that is a bit more > > nice than "WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 weston-terminal |& grep -e '[insert complex > > expression here]'") then maybe "wayland-tools" or "wayland-utils"? > > Then again "wayland-info" is nice because it sounds more like a > > "read-only" thing than "-tools" and "-utils". > > +1 for something like that - and the tool you're thinking of (though > incredibly unpolished) is weston-eventdemo. ;) > > I'd prefer they weren't split into one repo per tool. I think, and > this is pretty much the general consensus of upstream and distributors > both, that we went too far with unbundling during Xorg modularisation. > It doesn't give anyone any practical benefit, and just makes life a > bit more difficult.
Agreed, a single wayland-tools package would be easier to keep track of for release purposes. Things can always be split up more fine grain later. I can work on getting the repo set up and move weston-info into it, if no one else is already planning to do it? Bryce _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
