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

From: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:43:03 -0500

Hello,

FRIGN wrote:
> -1) Compositor's demands:
> Not everyone has a full drm-kms-setup. Hell, I don't even use evdev
> on my devices (It's more secure when you strip out the Event Interface
> from the Kernel).

Can you explain your thinking here on security? Is it just that less
compiled code == more secure?

> -2) Code-rot:
> I know, there are libs, but who guarantees they're still around in a
> few years _and_ compatible with the still rather "dynamic" Wayland-API?
> Why not just write a Weston-plugin then? Because Weston sucks (PAM,
> overengineered, too many features for dwm, ...)!

Have you looked much at Weston? PAM integration is limited to 1 file
& 3 functions, and could be trivially excised.

> In the end, you just give up and implement it yourself, forcing you to
> maintain thousands of LOC, risking bugs and wasting your time.

How is this different from the tinyx project you mentioned? Ah,
right, you like tinyx.

yours,
Bobby
Received on Tue Jan 14 2014 - 15:43:03 CET