weston-info

[Yong Bakos]

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 1:56 AM, Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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".

Good idea.

yong


> 
> Jonas
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Olivier​