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> Mir is structured as communication via a protocol over sockets It's important to note that there's a big distinction between Wayland and Mir here. Mir provid
by rlpb 12y ago
> Mir is structured as communication via a protocol over sockets
It's important to note that there's a big distinction between Wayland and Mir here. Mir provides an ABI; a protocol over sockets is an implementation detail.
OTOH, Wayland is defined as a protocol that runs over a socket.
- Someone 12y agoSo, the way to make peace between the camps is to write an implementation of the Mir API that (optionally) uses the Wayland protocol? Back to the interview: is there actually an answer there to "what is is that Mir does, that Wayland doesn't?". Apart from the protocol versus API thing, and a claim that protocols cannot be versioned easily (PDF files seem a counterexample to me), I can't find it.