Recommended dev setup?

[Yong Bakos]

Hi David,

> On Dec 2, 2016, at 7:48 PM, David Piper <drppublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm jumping back into the Wayland loop after more than a year. My first port of call is once again building Wayland and Weston and getting some of the sample clients running. About all I've done so far is install Weston the quick and dirty (apt-get) way on Ubuntu and read through the build instructions.
> 
> Next I'd like to follow the build instructions, get some of the sample clients running and then start writing my own toy clients. Once I've done that I wouldn't mind hacking a bit on the weston compositor - probably not touching libweston itself, but at least getting to know it.
> 
> I'll be pushing along in Ubuntu for now but I thought I should throw the question out here - what is the best dev loop for working with Wayland? Should I be using Ubuntu or should I look for an OS that supports Wayland out of the box? What kind of environment setup would make things faster?

Any major distro will be fine. Folks use Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.
You do not need to run a DE that uses Wayland in order to
build & run Wayland/Weston.

yong


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 
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