[RFC wayland] Track protocol object versions inside wl_proxy.
Derek Foreman
derekf at osg.samsung.com
Wed Nov 25 12:03:45 PST 2015
On 13/11/15 12:21 PM, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So do i understand correctly that if the app creating the
>> wl_compositor was built against a libwayland without this patch the
>> version returned in mesa by wl_proxy_get_version() for every proxy
>> will be always 1?
>
> Yes, see also the second e-mail link below. I proposed to make
> wl_display version 0 so that libraries can detect whether the client
> was built against old or new libwayland.
>
> --Jason
We can do a test like...
if (proxy == (struct wl_proxy *)proxy->display)
return 1;
in wl_proxy_get_version() if we want to return non-0 values from
wl_display_get_version(display);
Is this worth the trouble, or is it safe to always consider wl_display
to be "unversioned"?
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