Hello everybody,

Question:
Given that somebody has Wayland/Weston 1.3 already integrated in their system, 
what would it take to upgrade to the upcoming Wayland/Weston 1.5?  Is this just 
a matter of re-building it and everything will continue working out of the box? 
 Are there any adjustments in the graphics stack (drivers, EGL support, etc.) 
needed to support 1.5?  Are there any adjustments on the application side 
needed to work with 1.5?

Background:
The question is related to the weston-ivi-shell patch series submitted by 
Nobuhiko Tanibata.  This work is connected to the work that GENIVI [1] 
previously did in the area of IVI Layer Management.  On the GENIVI side, the 
original plan was to propose the ivi-shell and the corresponding protocol to 
the Wayland project.  However, it was expected that it will take time to review 
and agree the protocols.  Until then the plan provided for adopting an 
out-of-tree patch based on Wayland/Weston 1.3 for GENIVI purposes.  Once the 
ivi-shell would be integrated in Wayland/Weston, GENIVI would switch to the 
upstream version.

Now that the patch series was well accepted and that only a few changes were 
suggested to the original protocol, it would make more sense for GENIVI to 
align with the upstream right away.  The only catch is that the content of the 
next GENIVI release is being finalized right now and the decision must be done 
quickly.  During the original reviews in GENIVI, using Wayland/Weston 1.3 as 
the basis was already approved.  The above question is an attempt to estimate 
the impact of adopting 1.5 instead.  Any hints and information on possible 
upgrade problems would be therefore greatly appreciated.


Thanks,
--Pavel Konopelko

[1] http://projects.genivi.org/

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