>If it works fine, why not import it into the project?
Why? The shim is generic, it's for porting any Linux programs.
>And an important distinction here is that the drivers issue pertains to Weston
It would also affect the other Wayland implementations, which would need to adopt the same driver system. Those drivers would have to duplicate a lot of code from DRM and Mesa, it's just not worth it to put all that code into another library and then make Weston use it.
>But none of this need be debated if we just dropped the pretense that Wayland or the Wayland community cared about anything other than Linux.
Again, what is there to port to? Those other systems are behind in supporting the APIs needed for modern hardware. There's no alternative to DRM, GEM, KMS, etc.
>Wayland is simpler than X less because it's better designed and more because it redefined the problem. Network transparency? Not Wayland's problem. Portable across OS and driver environments? Not Wayland's problem. Input device management? Not Wayland's prob^W^W^W....
I think you know that X11 wasn't exactly good at any of that. I would think BSD users appreciate all of that because they all have different opinions on how all those things should be done.
Why? The shim is generic, it's for porting any Linux programs.
>And an important distinction here is that the drivers issue pertains to Weston
It would also affect the other Wayland implementations, which would need to adopt the same driver system. Those drivers would have to duplicate a lot of code from DRM and Mesa, it's just not worth it to put all that code into another library and then make Weston use it.
>But none of this need be debated if we just dropped the pretense that Wayland or the Wayland community cared about anything other than Linux.
Again, what is there to port to? Those other systems are behind in supporting the APIs needed for modern hardware. There's no alternative to DRM, GEM, KMS, etc.
>Wayland is simpler than X less because it's better designed and more because it redefined the problem. Network transparency? Not Wayland's problem. Portable across OS and driver environments? Not Wayland's problem. Input device management? Not Wayland's prob^W^W^W....
I think you know that X11 wasn't exactly good at any of that. I would think BSD users appreciate all of that because they all have different opinions on how all those things should be done.