Hi Pekka, On 6 February 2017 at 12:00, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:05:51 +0000 > Daniel Stone <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think we've got to choose between fixing it for 1.13 and removing it >> immediately after release (which I will happily do), or just ripping >> it out now. > > I believe it works already as well as it ever has. Therefore any change > to how it works is something no user has ever seen before. > > I reviewed update_outputs() from Weston 1.10 release (a random pick) > and it seems that too uses --connector only for start-up, and never for > hotplug. The same for Weston 1.7, so I believe it has never worked any > better. > > If --connector didn't work *at all* currently, then I'd agree on just > removing it right now. OTOH, I have seen notes that --connector has > actually been used in the wild, which is why I'd say it's a major > feature to remove: it has a risk of user-visible breakage (unknown > command line option).
OK, fair enough. I'd suggest we: - merge Emre's two patches as legitimate bugfixes - document --connector as deprecated in NEWS for 2.0 (must stop typing 1.13) - remove it for 2.1 (or 3.0 or whatever) How's that sound? For the record, these two patches are: Acked-by: Daniel Stone <[email protected]> Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
