> On June 1, 2016, 8:13 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > -2, see also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361954 for explanation > > why we don't want this. > > Pino Toscano wrote: > Nowhere there is discussed (only briefly mentioned) about support with > non-Linux platforms; considering libkscreen is a library used by components > (and also external ones, like the display configuration in LxQt), then it > makes sense to me making it portable. > > Making wayland mandatory in libkscreen (and also in other modules, like > plasma-integration, kwin, kscreenlocker) means killing outright any attempt > to make Plasma build on non-Linux platforms. Please reconsider this, thanks. > > Martin Gräßlin wrote: > which non-Linux platforms which we care about don't have Wayland? Before > making KWayland a mandatory dependency in Plasma we did check with distro > packagers. Everyone was fine with it. > > Pino Toscano wrote: > At least to my reading of Wayland sources, to build the libraries you > need features like signalfd and timerfd, which are non-POSIX and available > only on Linux. > > Can you please point me to the discussion you had with distro packagers? > > Martin Gräßlin wrote: > There are non-linux which have successfully run Weston on a DRM backend. > That was in the news a few weeks back, see e.g. > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2016-May/249620.html > > So let's go from "theoretically not possible" to "practically not > possible". Where is it not possible to have a Wayland dependency? > > Concerning the discussion: a quick search showed me > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-distro-packagers/2015-July/000076.html, > but there must be an older one already as we use it in plasma-workspace > (kscreenlocker) since Plasma 5.2 IIRC. This makes it difficult for me to > point you to the discussion as it's really a long time ago. > > Bhushan Shah wrote: > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2015-July/008725.html
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-distro-packagers/2015-July/000076.html > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2015-July/008725.html The only party involved there is a Slackware packager, which is a Linux distro (where the Wayland libraries can be built fine). I don't see anyone mentioning non-Linux support. > There are non-linux which have successfully run Weston on a DRM backend. That > was in the news a few weeks back, see e.g. > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2016-May/249620.html That's the second attempt at this I see (the first one was beginning of 2013 IIRC), yet none of this code as been upstreamed yet. - Pino ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128073/#review96120 ----------------------------------------------------------- On June 1, 2016, 8:10 a.m., Pino Toscano wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128073/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated June 1, 2016, 8:10 a.m.) > > > Review request for Plasma, Solid, Daniel Vrátil, Martin Gräßlin, and > Sebastian Kügler. > > > Repository: libkscreen > > > Description > ------- > > Look for KF5Wayland as optional package, not building all the Wayland-related > code (backend, additions to tests, DPMS support in kscreen-doctor) if it is > not available. > > This allows libkscreen to build again on platforms without Wayland, such as > non-Linux or old Linux distros. > > > Diffs > ----- > > CMakeLists.txt 9c834d9500fa0b89764516464bd58e835671977b > autotests/CMakeLists.txt 2c8ee3d2021b1222072d6a1faafaff1b336d27e3 > backends/CMakeLists.txt 3563e138454edcc0c874237745123b09077d067c > src/doctor/CMakeLists.txt 7294d88af127a6604bc7e48e16342c93f152de8c > src/doctor/doctor.cpp a156f006212e63c155a6f643929d0a5880275731 > tests/CMakeLists.txt 1489d21383e13cd1431a81d48b4a272c28302041 > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128073/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > Builds fine. > > > Thanks, > > Pino Toscano > >
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