Unstable protocol name breakage

Jonas Ådahl jadahl at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 19:58:51 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:51:34AM +0200, Jan Arne Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 20/10/15 04:22, Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> > input-method.xml: This one I think might actually be fine to just apply the
> > naming schema, as the protocol itself has Wayland core principle violations
> > that need to be solved, i.e. any implementor of this is already broken (by
> > principle).
> > 
> > text.xml: This one I'm not so sure about. Has it ever been implemented outside
> > of weston except only as a proof of concept? Would it be fine to use the same
> > name?
> 
> I would suggest to just use zwl_...v1 names for both protocols for now.
> We can decide later if we want to use a different stable name for them
> (they both need to be fixed in a non backward compatible way anyways).

Ok. I will try to remember to CC you on the corresponding weston patches
that does the renaming so you can ack or review the actual change.


Jonas

> 
> Regards
> Jan Arne
> 
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