Project Summary
Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
Weston is the open-source reference implementation of Wayland. Check Weston project here:
https://www.ohloh.net/p/weston
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 55 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 2001
ending with its most recent commit 10 days ago
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