Re: swc library to implement dwm under Wayland (was Re: [dev] gtk3 support for surf?)

From: Fernando C.V. <ferkiwi_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 02:40:36 +0100

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:39 AM, FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> I am still wondering if Wayland really is the way to go, given the fact
> it requires a lot of dependencies for "basic" tasks (*(E)GL, dbus, PAM,
> DRI (mostly)) and hogs memory.

I believe most of the implementation details are up to the compositor,
Wayland is just a protocol.

At least in archlinux, the wayland package has only 2 dependencies:
libffi and expat

Regards,

--
Fernando

Received on Tue Jan 14 2014 - 02:40:36 CET