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Re: wlroots backport?



On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 08:47:31PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 14.08.2023 02:28, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> > Is there any interest in backporting the latest version of wlroots
> > (0.16.2) to bookworm?  wlroots upstream only supports the latest version
> > and the wlroots API is unstable, so compositors that rely on 0.16.x will
> > not work with the version in stable (0.15.x).
> 
> There's an issue with wlroots and backporting: it is the soname of libwlroots
> library.  We don't gain much by backporting just the wlroots, the users of
> the library has to be rebuild or backported too.

I have written a Wayland compositor for Qubes OS that relies on wlroots.
That said, I’m wondering if I should just link wlroots statically, as my
compositor will follow upstream wlroots releases.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab

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