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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