Tracking wlroots releases

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Tracking wlroots releases

[m-col]

Just saw that you did update to work with 0.13.0 so ignore that part :)

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This is a great question. With wayland, it looks like everything is generally added in a nice backwards compatible way, and then through the protocols, that we can generally keep track of our own versions. But I was thinking it might make sense to change the versioning here to keep inline with the wlroots version that is supported. So something like 0.13.x, where our bugfixes can be new patch versions, but signifying that it supports wlroots 0.13. While we are still in the early phase, supporting the latest version is probably good enough, we can try to maintain backwards compatible support as much as makes sense and as much as it makes sense to keep up the support for the older versions. In which case, having the versions following the wlroots version would make keeping separate branches alive for separate versions easier. That is probably more maintenance than we need at this point, but a good thing to think about as we move this into qtile and need to support it more.

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Happy to have thoughts or feedback on the best way to version this and maintain support for upstream wlroots functionality!

[m-col]

Oops forgot to reply. I noticed you changed the version to 0.13.0. Yeah that sounds like a nice approach, just like you suggested above.

In which case, having the versions following the wlroots version would make keeping separate branches alive for separate versions easier. That is probably more maintenance than we need at this point, but a good thing to think about as we move this into qtile and need to support it more.

Agreed completely. If people really wanted to they could package the latest 0.13.x version as pywlroots-0.13 after we're done with it, if they wanted to keep using the older version.

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Sounds good. Yeah, that agrees with how I was seeing that.