Weston 8.0 Released With DRM HDCP Support, EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Weston 8.0 Released With DRM HDCP Support, EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL

Weston 8.0 was released today as the newest version of this reference Wayland compositor...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-Weston-8.0

[tildearrow]

Weston 8 already? I'm pretty sure we will be in Weston 500.0 by 2050.

[archsway]

If you see anyone trying to install Weston, do the world a favour and show them Sway or Wayfire instead.

They have a far lower overhead than Weston, actually work, don't cause weird artifacts, don't cause hangs, and are generally not completely broken.

[RahulSundaram]

If you see anyone trying to install Weston, do the world a favour and show them Sway or Wayfire instead.

They have a far lower overhead than Weston, actually work, don't cause weird artifacts, don't cause hangs, and are generally not completely broken.

Weston is a reference implementation. It was never developed to be used directly

[archsway]

Weston is a reference implementation. It was never developed to be used directly

Softpipe is a reference implementation. It was never developed to be used directly.

However, when another driver gives different results to softpipe, softpipe is usually right.

When a Wayland compositor is different from Weston, Weston is usually wrong.

The core focus of Weston is correctness and reliability. Weston aims to be lean and fast.

Weston isn't any of those things.

[Azrael5]

A real important progress in terms of multimedia contents fruition.

[Azrael5]

Weston 8 already? I'm pretty sure we will be in Weston 500.0 by 2050.

it means that it improves quickly.

[uid313]

HDCP, yuck! 🤮️

No Vulkan support.

[tildearrow]

HDCP, yuck! 🤮️

No Vulkan support.

*quickly gets vomiting bag but too late*

Arghhh what a mess to clean up! But guess that is the mess HDCP is.




No Rust, $35 100% open-hardware RISC-V support.

[ascent12]

Weston 8 already? I'm pretty sure we will be in Weston 500.0 by 2050.

They bump the major version every time they make an API breakage, which is basically every release at this point.

They have a far lower overhead than Weston, actually work, don't cause weird artifacts, don't cause hangs, and are generally not completely broken.

When a Wayland compositor is different from Weston, Weston is usually wrong.

Weston isn't any of those things.

I'm a developer for wlroots. What you've said is just plain wrong.
Weston is the highest quality Wayland compositor in many regards, and we're still playing catch up in a few areas, particularly regarding low-level graphics.
It is still a useful reference implementation which we compare a lot of our behaviour against.

HDCP, yuck! 🤮️

Honestly, it's pretty benign here. Weston's main use case currently is embedded, where they may care about this.
It's going to have absolutely no effect on any desktop uses. Also, due to how the kernel API works, and the user has full control of the compositor, it's trivial to lie to the client that we're actually "protecting" their content. It doesn't take any freedom away from the user.