On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:15:18 -0400 Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote: > > Wayland-1.0 has been released. > > > > http://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases.html > > > > Has anyone tried making it work on NetBSD yet? > > Ugh, crammed full of linuxisms like epoll.h and such, apparently no > attempt has been made to be even slightly portable. Not going to be > trivial :/ The general concept of Wayland makes sense (let's face it, X is a mess and needs to die eventually), but I haven't seen any sign of acknowledgement that other *nix systems even exist, or that people might not have the narrow hardware configuration that they have targetted. The latter is a concern on Linux, never mind NetBSD. Having said that, I get the impression is that the aim was to design an architecture, and create a reference implementation of that architecture *on Linux*. And so portability really isn't a goal (is it ever for Linux projects?). Accordingly, it would probably be more fruitful to build a separate, portable implementation from the ground up, tracking the spec rather than the ugly codebase. Obviously that's no small job. -- 3072D/F3A66B3A Julian Yon (2012 General Use) <pgp.2012%jry.me@localhost>
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