Protocol (scanner) proposals

[Auke Booij]

On 30 July 2014 20:27, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually no. Binding writers are expected to write their own code
> generator for their language, like wayland-scanner is for C. You
> are expected to not use the static inline generated C functions.

Okay, that makes some amount of sense. But in that case, that should
be documented.

> Instead the functions actually exported by the library are the ABI.

I guess that this is convention in C?

> I would love to see documentation patches!

Speaking of which, is there a reason the code samples don't show up
correctly in the online documentation?

> In fact, you inspired me to draw a picture, attached. Maybe that
> could be integrated in the Wayland docs somehow.

Yes, this would be helpful.

> Only when those protocols a) become stable, and b) are actually
> intended to be public and not specific to Weston.
>
> I think the latest move was wl_subcompositor.

Got it.