Hi Michael. On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Michael Forney <mfor...@mforney.org> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:17:42 -0400, Carlos Torres <vlaadbr...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I didn't know about this >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQyMTQ >> >> I'm both excited or looking to troll > > I'm the author of the port.
I'm glad you were the first to answer, Kudos. wayland needs more suckless. Keep on it and ignore the negative commentary. :-) > I'm not sure how the suckless community > feels about Wayland, but it seems like the core protocol is fairly > lightweight, depends only on libffi, and is refreshing to work with > compared to X. you'll get varied reactions on the list. I for one am happy to see the mingling between wayland and suckless stuff, since it potentially exposes the suckless philosophy, whatever it may be. > Weston's goals are perhaps more orthogonal to suckless, > but I think there is potential for a suckless compositor. > > I don't really expect there to be a suckless Wayland environment for a > while, and maybe something better will come around before there is, but > I think my rendering library could be useful in either case (the Wayland > part is just buffer creation/management and is separate from the > rendering part). > > -- > Michael Forney <mfor...@mforney.org> > Thanks --Carlos