Some time ago we introduce a "temporary" facility to hook into the protobuf messaging protocol. This is exemplified by the DemoPrivateProtobuf acceptance tests. This support was intended to allow faster prototyping of some features that would eventually migrate into Mir.
Once these features were stable and integrated into Mir we intended to remove this support (and these files have always carried a warning not to use these APIs "for real"). As part of our stabilization of API and ABI efforts we should be trying to remove this support from the API. In particular, Mir cannot ensure compatibility across different Mir servers for any toolkits that depend on such features. However, things have not worked out as intended. These APIs are in use for an (apparently stable) unity.protobuf.UnityService service copied between platform-api, unity-mir and qtmir. It would clearly be better to have a single definition of this service in Mir than requiring all downstream projects to replicate it for compatibility. Thoughts? -- Mir-devel mailing list Mir-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/mir-devel
