[RFC wayland v2] Add libwayland-glib for GLib main loop integration

[Tarnyko]

Quentin Glidic writes: 

> On 25/10/2013 20:01, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:10:26PM +0200, Quentin Glidic wrote:
>>> From: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git at sardemff7.net> 
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git at sardemff7.net>
>>> --- 
>>> 
>>> Here is a new version of my GLib main loop integration for Wayland.
>>> Now everything is in libwayland-client (I didn’t work on the server
>>> side) and package detection can be done using the pkg-config file
>>> or the header if needed.
>> 
>> I'm not convinced we need a separate glib shared library for this.
>> It's only 150 lines of code and gtk+ already has integration code for
>> this.  Further, any glib use of wayland that isn't also a gtk+ user
>> seems very niche, so I don't expect a lot of user of this library. 
>> 
>> Kristian
> 
> This is why this v2 is just the GSource included directly in 
> libwayland-client (I forgot to change the commit message). 
> 
> The idea is inspired by PulseAudio, which has a few main loop helpers 
> shipped with libpulse (GLib integration, simple and threaded loops). 
> 
> I would understand if you do not want to include this code in 
> libwayland-client though, but I am willing to maintain it if you decide to 
> do so. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> --  
> 
> Quentin “Sardem FF7” Glidic

Hi Quentin, 

Just to let you know that there are people interested in your work 
(including me). I'm currently backporting your patches to 1.2 to test some 
command-line apps using GLib with libwayland-client. 

Regards,
Tarnyko