[Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] [PATCH 1/5] wayland-egl: allow shipping the library or not

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 June 2018 at 16:07, Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2018-06-05 15:14:30 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>> From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>>>
>>> Recently the wayland-egl library and pkg-config file were moved to the
>>> Wayland repository. With that a strange conflict came to be - which one
>>> should be used and when.
>>>
>>> The long term goal is to remove the Mesa copies, but with this patch we
>>> allow builders to explicitly select if they want it.
>>>
>>> Note: since the header (wayland-egl-backend.h) is now used by C++
>>> people, s/private/driver_private/ was applied.
>>>
>>> Cc: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com>
>>> CC: 18.0 18.1 <mesa-stable at freedesktop.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>>> ---
>>>  configure.ac                            | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>>  meson.build                             | 12 ++++++++++++
>>>  meson_options.txt                       |  6 ++++++
>>>  src/Makefile.am                         |  2 ++
>>>  src/egl/Makefile.am                     |  1 +
>>>  src/egl/drivers/dri2/platform_wayland.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>>>  src/egl/meson.build                     |  2 +-
>>>  src/meson.build                         |  2 +-
>>>  8 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>>> index 02dca4547c8..5ea52242bd1 100644
>>> --- a/configure.ac
>>> +++ b/configure.ac
>>> @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ LIBOMXIL_BELLAGIO_REQUIRED=0.0
>>>  LIBOMXIL_TIZONIA_REQUIRED=0.10.0
>>>  LIBVA_REQUIRED=0.39.0
>>>  VDPAU_REQUIRED=1.1
>>> +# TODO: Bump to 1.15 -> the first version that ships wayland-egl-backend
>>>  WAYLAND_REQUIRED=1.11
>>>  WAYLAND_PROTOCOLS_REQUIRED=1.8
>>>  XCB_REQUIRED=1.9.3
>>> @@ -1766,6 +1767,18 @@ if test "x$enable_glx_read_only_text" = xyes; then
>>>      DEFINES="$DEFINES -DGLX_X86_READONLY_TEXT"
>>>  fi
>>>
>>> +dnl
>>> +dnl TEMPORARY: mostly for stable releases
>>> +dnl
>>> +dnl It will allow easier management as the wayland-egl library was
>>> +dnl moved to the Wayland project
>>> +dnl
>>> +AC_ARG_ENABLE(bundled-wayland-egl,
>>> +   [AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-bundled-wayland-egl],
>>> +                [disable shipping of the wayland-egl library and pkg-config file @<:@default=enabled@:>@])],
>>> +   [enable_wayland_egl=$enableval], [enable_wayland_egl=yes])
>>> +AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_WAYLAND_EGL, test "x$enable_wayland_egl" = xyes)
>>
>> I'm not sure I see the benefit of your variant of adding all the
>> complexity of a new option and immediately making it an error to use it.
>> Could you explain your logic?
>>
> In all fairness, it should have been introduced when wayland-egl was
> proposed for Wayland inclusion.
> Back then I was under the naive assumption that, distribution maintainers will:
>  - read mesa-maintainers@ or the wayland release notes
>  - will know how to address the multiple copies of libwayland-egl.so
>
> Since then a distribution (wish shall remain unnamed), kind of
> foobar'd both of the above.

This is not a productive way to talk to people, and as a distro
maintainer that has been aware of the change and has been asking you
specifically for guidance for months it really rubs me the wrong way.

Neither your email to mesa-maintainers@ nor the Wayland release notes
told distros what to do... because there wasn't anything that could be
done since you never finished the Mesa bits. As for knowing how to
address multiple copies of a library: we do. We delete the one we
don't need and we ask upstream to sort their crap out.

I asked on May 8th on #dri-devel:

<mattst88> xexaxo1: are distros supposed to stop building Mesa with
--with-platforms=...,wayland with wayland 1.15 providing
libwayland-egl?
<mattst88> I don't typically read the wayland ml, so I was surprised
to find out that there was a packaging change required like this

Never got a response.

The same day I replied to the Wayland 1.15 announcement email which says:

> libwayland-egl is now part of libwayland, and will presumably be removed
> from mesa in the not too distant future.

and asked the same question, Cc'ing you.

Never got a response.

Pekka replied on the 14th and asked you for advice.

Never got a response.

I asked Eric on the 21st if he wouldn't mind taking over. He sends
patches, and now you decide it's the time to offer a competing patch
series.

Please, let's just take Eric's series and move on with life.