Wayland

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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

In a Nutshell, Wayland...

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has had 12,745 commits made by 533 contributors
representing 187,497 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 48 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 2001
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago

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