On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 10:32:56 +0200 Olivier Fourdan <four...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > A long time ago [1], I suggested that we move weston-info out of the > Weston source tree because this is a very useful tool which gives > important information about any Wayland compositor, not just Weston. > > The general consensus was it was a good idea, unfortunately other more > important things happened, people (including me) eventually forgot > about that and it never actually came to fruition… > > But the need remains, I think we should have a compositor agnostic > tool that gives the general information about the running compositor. > And we should not need to install Weston for that alone. > > So I took the liberty to uproot weston-info, rename it as wayland-info > and put it on its own repo: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ofourdan/wayland-info > > As you can see, I took great care to preserve the git history of > weston-info in the process. > > In the meantime, Peter has already submitted patches to wayland-info > (thanks Peter!) so the tip of wayland-info is different from > weston-info (basically, we have diverged already). > > Eventually, if nobody has objections, we could move that repo to the > wayland domain… Hi Olivier, thanks for doing this, looks good! +1 for having this under the wayland organization in Gitlab. +1 for deleting weston-info from Weston repository. Shall we keep the new repository only for "info" tools, or should it contain more, like Weston's simple-shm, simple-egl, and a rewrite of weston-eventdemo that doesn't use toytoolkit? I would be fine with moving all "simple" clients from Weston repository to there if that's appropriate. Thanks, pq
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