Wayland and Weston 1.5.0 is released

Eoff, Ullysses A ullysses.a.eoff at intel.com
Tue May 20 14:16:37 PDT 2014


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wayland-devel [mailto:wayland-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Bill Spitzak
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:03 PM
> To: wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: Wayland and Weston 1.5.0 is released
> 
> On 05/20/2014 01:12 PM, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> 
> >   • The weston input stack was split out as a new library, libinput.
> >     Weston can be configured to link to libinput for input but defaults
> >     to the built in input code for now.  As the libinput API
> >     stabilizes, we'll remove the in-weston input code and make libinput
> >     a hard requirement.
> 
> Should the instructions for compiling Wayland perhaps be changed to
> compile libinput?
> 
> Other than the unstable api is anything currently wrong with libinput
> that makes it worse than using the internal code?

We did all of our Weston 1.5 release testing with libinput and found
nothing inherently wrong with it.  See
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-May/014881.html
for more details of which commit we tested it with and how we
tested it.

Cheers,
U. Artie

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