weston-info as a standalone utility

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Pekka,

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 13:34, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:13:19 +0200
> Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 10:39, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > And from the corresponding glxinfo / vulkaninfo & friends, which don't
> > > have their own repositories either. The only exception that comes to
> > > mind offhand is xdpyinfo, but that's just because every single app got
> > > its own repository when the monolithic X tree was split up, which
> > > these days seems to be generally considered as having gone overboard.
> >
> > Right, so, to move forward with this, I shall:
> >
> >  - Rename the repository to “wayland-utils”
> >  - Move the source into its own subdirectory (so we can have more later)
> >
>
> Sounds good.

Cool! Done, here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ofourdan/wayland-utils

If that works for everyone, I'll remove the old “wayland-info” repo.

> > Regarding weston-info, shouldn't we add a deprecation warning before
> > actually removing it? Or maybe add a symlink weston-info→wayland-info
> > ?
>
> Personally I'd be fine leaving that with distribution packagers.
> That way we upstream don't have to deal with weston<->wayland-utils
> conflicts or dependencies. As there is no conflict to begin
> with, we're not in a hurry to remove weston-info. We can do that in
> the next Weston release after the first wayland-utils release.

That's certainly fine by me. :)

Cheers


Olivier