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From: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <hamishmb@live.co.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Random question: plans for Wayland support?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:18:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB7PR02MB3996D4701BAE0D51BB7D7F58E7BF0@DB7PR02MB3996.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d4608f1-a291-5f9e-3c10-f8ab3ded574e@SystematicSw.ab.ca>


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On 22/01/2021 23:34, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-01-22 03:02, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote:
>> Kind of a random question, but are there potential plans to supporting
>> running Wayland under Cygwin as an alternative to X11?
>>
>> I have no idea if it would even be practical/possible to do this, but
>> just curious.
>
> The standard answer here is: are you interested and offering to do it?
> SHTDI

I would love to, but sadly I don't have the knowledge of Wayland to
diagnose and fix the probably inevitable slew of incompatibilities, or
the time to do it.

For me personally, X11 works fine, but just wanted to know if anyone
else was thinking about this.

Hamish


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      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-23 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-22 10:02 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2021-01-22 23:34 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-23 18:18   ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty [this message]

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