On 27 July 2017 at 14:34, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:56:21 +0100 > Emil Velikov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Emil Velikov <[email protected]> >> >> Unlike the core wayland library, it's recommended that one statically >> embeds the protocol within their binary. >> > > Hi, > > that is true, but I'd rather leave this file alone. If people use it, > they start getting warnings, but nothing else changes for them. If we > don't hear people complaining for few releases, we might be able to > remove this file. I would like to see this file go, since none of our > projects use this AFAIK, so it's very untested, and I believe it cannot > cope with wayland-protocols' unstable/stable directory conventions. > > OTOH, if this patch is applied and someone uses this file, their > exports will change unexpectedly. > > Very good points - both on the subtle breakage and on the actual usefulness of the file.
FWIW, Mesa (and libva after I poked them a few times) don't use the file. I won't decide on the "to be or not be", although I do have slight inclination about removing it. I'll purge the file with v2 and if people don't agree, that's fine. Thanks Emil _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
