Mir 1.3 Released With Wayland Improvements, New AL Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mir 1.3 Released With Wayland Improvements, New AL Features

Mir 1.3 was released today as the newest version of Canonical's project making it easier to write desktop shells with Wayland support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-1.3-Released

[uid313]

Is Mir like wlroots?

Because you can use wlroots for the same purpose? So how are these similar or different?

[Britoid]

Is Mir like wlroots?

Because you can use wlroots for the same purpose? So how are these similar or different?

wlroots i a library, similar to mutter, that you'd build a display server/window manager with.

Mir is becoming a Wayland display server in its own right that's not tied to any DE/WM.

[jo-erlend]

Is Mir like wlroots?

Because you can use wlroots for the same purpose? So how are these similar or different?

It's a display server. The website has examples: https://mir-server.io/

[tildearrow]

Is Mir like wlroots?

Because you can use wlroots for the same purpose? So how are these similar or different?

It's like wlroots and Sway, or Weston and libweston.
It's a Wayland display server and library for making compositors at the same time.