weston-info

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:55:42AM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi Pekka,
> 
> On 5 April 2016 at 10:30, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > ​[...]
> >
> >
> > this is a good idea indeed.
> >
> > Originally weston-info was needed in Weston repository, because it was
> > useful in reporting specific information from extensions being
> > developed in Weston. Nowadays we have wayland-protocols for such
> > extensions.
> >
> > However, since *-info depends on wayland-protocols, it cannot be put
> > into the Wayland repository, as that would create a cyclical dependency.
> >
> 
> ​Ah right, yes, of course...
> ​
> 
> 
> > So, a new repository seems to be needed. Let the bikeshedding for the
> > name begin! ;-)
> >
> > (Is it expected to host other universal Wayland tools?)
> >
> 
> Very good question, do we have any other universal tool of general use like
> weston-info?
> 
> I would be fine with a dedicated repo (
> Xorg tend
> ​s​
> to use one repo per tool
> ​, e.g.​
> xdpyinfo
> ​, xdriinfo, xwininfo, xprop within xorg/app) so maybe we could have
> "wayland/tools/
> wayland-info
> ​"​
> ?
> 
> "wayland-info" would be fine by me, for both repo and tool name.
> >

Just a fly by shed color thought. If we in the future want to add more
generic debug tools (for example something like xev that is a bit more
nice than "WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 weston-terminal |& grep -e '[insert complex
expression here]'") then maybe "wayland-tools" or "wayland-utils"?
Then again "wayland-info" is nice because it sounds more like a
"read-only" thing than "-tools" and "-utils".


Jonas

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier​

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