Bug#652896: Compile broadway backend

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 05/09/13 09:34, Balint Reczey wrote:
> On 09/05/2013 12:28 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 04/09/13 22:45, Balint Reczey wrote:
>>> On 05/27/2013 12:28 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>>> On 25/05/13 12:42, pothos at riseup.net wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I would like to speak out again for this feature as it also has
>>>>> multi-process support and is in the documentation:
>>>>> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.8/gtk-broadway.html
>>>>> Recompiling the lib takes very long and so if you even think it's not
>>>>> ready for sid yet, I would like to see it at least in experimental.
>>>>
>>>> I will enable the wayland backend in experimental soon and will consider
>>>> the broadway backend.
>>>>
>>>> Emilio
>>> Hi Emilio,
>>>
>>> It would be really nice to have broadway enabled at least in
>>> experimental. Probably it won't break the build and could become enabled
>>> in unstable as well after a build round on all architectures.
>>
>> I think it's been enabled in svn for 3.9/experimental, but it's currently
>> blocked on a new wayland release for the wayland backend. It should be in the
>> archive by next week.
> Is there any chance of seeing broadway enabled in the 3.8.x packages? It
> seems to be much smaller effort than enabling wayland and seeing it in
> testing soon would make this cool backend available for many users.
> 
> Broadway is definitely something I would demo to friends showing what
> cool things they could do with Debian (or GNU/Linux).

We should have 3.10 in sid by the end of the month, and 3.10 beta in
experimental this week, so I'm not sure working on it for 3.8 is that
worthwhile. You can install the package from experimental if you're that
interested :)

Emilio