weston-info

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:12:01PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 6 April 2016 at 07:56, Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:55:42AM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >> > 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".
> 
> +1 for something like that - and the tool you're thinking of (though
> incredibly unpolished) is weston-eventdemo. ;)
> 
> I'd prefer they weren't split into one repo per tool. I think, and
> this is pretty much the general consensus of upstream and distributors
> both, that we went too far with unbundling during Xorg modularisation.
> It doesn't give anyone any practical benefit, and just makes life a
> bit more difficult.

Agreed, a single wayland-tools package would be easier to keep track of
for release purposes.  Things can always be split up more fine grain
later.

I can work on getting the repo set up and move weston-info into it, if
no one else is already planning to do it?

Bryce