PipeWire as required dependency for xdp-kde

[Eric Hameleers]

Yes Jan, this sounds good.

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020, Jan Grulich wrote:

> Updated proposal:
> Make PipeWire as required dependency by default, but add option to disable it
> at compile time, using -DDISABLE_WAYLAND_SUPPORT=true which will avoid
> searching for KWayland and PipeWire. Sounds good?
>
> Jan
>
> On st?eda 8. dubna 2020 9:37:35 CEST Eric Hameleers wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Apr 2020, Jan Grulich wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to make PipeWire as a required dependency for
>>> xdg-desktop-portal- kde. The reason is that it's heavily used in Wayland
>>> integration part, which is now being used on other places and I don't
>>> want to add ifdefs all over the place. This would be a new requirement
>>> for Plasma 5.19. I want to ask if this is okay for distributions. At
>>> least I know that Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE have PipeWire
>>> available in their repositories. What about others?
>>>
>>> I would like to also point out that this brings screen sharing support on
>>> Wayland so it's quite important part of xdg-desktop-portal-kde.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jan
>>
>> I do not like the idea of imposing this as a hard dependency.
>> Slackware does not ship pipewire, we are also not interested in
>> Wayland.
>> I looked at it and noticed that pipewire has no formal releases and
>> distros ship it with a 0.2 or 0.3 version number. Should Plasma really
>> hard-depend on a piece of software which is immature or at least not
>> properly managed? Also, pipewire comes with its own dependency chain
>> which we do not fully cover in Slackware.
>> Could you please reconsider this idea.
>>
>> Cheers, Eric
>
>
>

Cheers, Eric

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