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Code review comment for lp:~alan-griffiths/mir/move-graphicsplatform-dependencies-to-graphics

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Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

> Now I look in more detail, there is a bigger issue - We are moving platform
> independent classes out of mir::compositor:: and into mir::graphics::. So the
> mir::graphics:: you see here is actually a superset of what will be the
> "platform" or driver". Much of it however is platform independent.
>
> I'm now wondering if the whole exercise makes sense. Dividing the server
> library into 3 eventual parts seems a bit messy:
>
> 1. Existing GPL server code
> 2. Server code which has to become LGPL
> 3. The platform/driver code
>
> I don't think designating 2 and 3 as mir::graphics:: is helpful. Particularly
> when 2 is more closely related to 1.

No-one is proposing to move 3 into graphics

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