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Bug#841301: ITP: libwlc -- wlc a compositor library for Wayland



Hey,

my main intention is to use the lib for sway but I'm glad if I can help
you with the package. How could I help you?

Best regards,
Jan

On 28.12.2016 14:05, Stefanos Boglou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have made a few prototype packages and seems to be not that difficult.
> There are a few issues however:
> 1) in the latest released version it does not seem to detect the installed
> wayland-protocols package and instead uses the one bundled with it but it
> is fixed in master
> 2) libchck is not packaged for debian thus it must be included in the
> source package
> 3) I have not taken the time to make shlib definitions yet
> 4) While the whole libwlc/sway seems to mostly work it has a few show
> stopping bugs that propably should be addressed first before even thinking
> about <testing>
> 
> May I ask why do you ask? Do you wish to help with packaging/developing it?
> Or are you just hoping to use it?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Jan Luca Naumann <j.naumann@fu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> nice that someone want to package the library :)
> 
> What is the current status of the ITP?
> 
> Best regards,
> Jan
> 
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:30:32 +0300 Stefanos Boglou <vfxcode@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefanos Boglou
>>>> <vfxcode@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> * Package name    : libwlc Version         : 0.0.6 Upstream Author
>>>> : Jari Vetoniemi <mailroxas@gmail.com> * URL             :
>>>> https://github.com/Cloudef/wlc * License         : MIT Programming
>>>> Lang: C Description     : A compositor library for Wayland
>>>>
>>>> This is a compositor library for Wayland. . Wayland is a computer
>>>> protocol that specifies the communication between a display server
>>>> (called Wayland cimpositor) and its clients. It aims to replace X
>>>> protocol soon(r).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Currently only weston is packaged in Debian, this should allow
>>>> easier packaging/development for window managers that depend on
>>>> this library (among others an almost drop-in replacement for i3).
>>>>
>>>> It is a requirment for the following window managers: * orbment -
>>>> Modular Wayland compositor * ocaml-loliwm - Translation of loliwm
>>>> to OCaml * sway - i3-compatible window manager for Wayland *
>>>> way-cooler - customizeable window manager written in Rust
>>>>
>>>> There are bindings for the following languages: * ocaml-wlc - OCaml
>>>> (experimental) * go-wlc - Go * rust-wlc - Rust
>>>>
>>>> Similar projects: * swc - A library for making a simple Wayland
>>>> compositor * libwlb - A Wayland back-end library * libweston -
>>>> Weston as a library
>>>>
>>>> The official name is "wlc" but wlc name is taken by another
>>>> package not related to this one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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