[fpc-pascal] wayland support for FPC

Graeme Geldenhuys graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk
Fri Nov 9 12:06:37 CET 2012


On 2012-11-09 10:42, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> IOW, I wouldn't desperately try to support Wayland native at this point.
> 
> That can be done if the native api turns out to be stable, Wayland truely
> takes over X11, and all distros package it.
>
> Now it is just asking for pain IMHO.

+1
That's exactly how I feel. There has been too many attempts to displace
X11 - and they all tanked. Wayland does seems to have more backing than
its predecessors though.

Bottom line, existing X11 apps will apparently continue to run on
Wayland. So we have timeā€¦

Regards,
  - Graeme -




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