legacy-support and Wayland

[René J. V. Bertin]

Chris Jones wrote:

Sorry, missed your reply.

I guess what I'm asking is: the legacy-support package/project must have come 
into existence because of an interest in running code that requires functions 
not present in all Mac OS versions - does that interest cover Wayland too?

I think that at some point we'll start seeing Wayland-only versions of 
applications from the Gnome universe.

R.
> 
> Not really sure what you are asking. legacy-support package is blind to
> what ports might be using it. It just supplies functionality missing on
> older OSes. If some hypothetical future wayland port needs these
> functions, it presumably could use the PG in the same way as everything
> else does.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 27/09/2019 9:32 am, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> A quick question to the legacy-support devs: do you have any interest in
>> whether or not these support functions (plus whatever else is needed and
>> doable) could help building Wayland for Mac?
>> 
>> FWIW, I brought up the idea of running Wayland with Jeremy H. back when he
>> was still maintaining XQuartz, and he was very positive about the idea
>> (including how it could improve X11 support - there's some sort of X11 server
>> "backend" for Wayland).
>> 
>> Proper Wayland support on Mac should also provide a more modern (and better
>> integrated) platform for traditional Unix apps, possibly even for KDE/KF5 as
>> an eco-system without need for patching Qt.
>> 
>> R.
>>