Hi,

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 08:45, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:49:37 +0000 Simon Ser <cont...@emersion.fr> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, August 20, 2019 2:43 PM, Victor Berger <victor.ber...@m4x.org> 
> > wrote:
> > > I can't talk for other projects, but in the case of wayland-rs this
> > > kind of corrections to the protocol files is very much welcome. Our
> > > scanner makes use of these annotation to generate appropriate APIs,
> > > and in this specific case the absence of the annotation makes it
> > > generate wrong code. So from wayland-rs point of view this is a
> > > bugfix, and thus not in contraction with stability. Especially
> > > given wayland-rs has not yet reached stability and is still likely
> > > to change, I'll just bump the version number when updating
> > > wayland-protocols.
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback! I'll wait for thoughts from Pekka before
> > doing anything, but I'd like to get these fixed too.
>
> I don't recall hearing much from people with custom code generating
> scanners, so until we upset someone and they come to us complaining
> about regressions the first time, I am fine with adding these
> annotations that do not break the ABI generated by wayland-scanner.
>
> When we started introducing these new attributes that may "break" the
> consumers of code generated by custom scanners, we had a discussion
> about this very issue. If I remember right, everyone involved at the
> time were happy with the "break" since the benefits will be greater
> than the damage in the long run. IIRC Victor was there then, and he
> said the same now.
>
> From my behalf:
>
> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paala...@collabora.com>
>
> Do you need me to land this?
>
> Since wayland-protocols is still using email workflow, please give all
> your Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags explicitly.

With the same rationale - this will only hurt people generating rich
bindings, who are the exact people who want it - this is:
Acked-by: Daniel Stone <dani...@collabora.com>

Cheers,
Daniel
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