[PATCH wayland 1/3] Pass input/output files as arguments to wayland-scanner

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 14:57:19 UTC 2017


On 3 July 2017 at 10:16, Jonas Ã…dahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> When input/output files are passed as arguments to wayland-scanner,
> instead of using stdin/stdout, warning and error messages will contain
> the file name, together with line number, of the warning/error. Doing
> this helps IDEs jump to the correct line.
>
I really like the idea, there is one concern though - some projects do
invoke wayland_scanner directly in their build system.
Thus this patch will break things for them.

If devs are OK with that (personally I'll say "yes please"), a big fat
warning in the release notes & announcement is due.

Fwiw the patch is
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emli.velikov at collabora.com>

-Emil


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