events loop 2 alpha release?

[Lokathor]

Can there be an alpha release of glium that bumps the glutin version to its alpha version, which in turn uses the winit 0.20-alpha version?

[est31]

Sure, PRs are welcome!

[Lokathor]

A simplistic attempt to bump the version leads to the following build error:

D:\dev\glium>cargo test
    Updating crates.io index
error: failed to select a version for `glutin`.
    ... required by package `glium v0.25.1-alpha1 (D:\dev\glium)`
versions that meet the requirements `^0.22.0-alpha1` are: 0.22.0-alpha1

the package `glium` depends on `glutin`, with features: `icon_loading` but `glutin` does not have these features.


failed to select a version for `glutin` which could resolve this conflict

It seems that one of the features that you're depending on has gone away. You'll have to decide how to handle that. Above my pay grade for a basic PR I'm afraid ;_;

[est31]

For reference discussion about this is in rust-windowing/winit#799

I think you can just remove the icon_loading feature. While it's definitely non-trivial to upgrade glutin because it has some larger changes, help would very much be appreciated!

[Lokathor]

The glutin alpha release is already out and using the new winit 0.20 alpha, so if glium can just drop that feature then that simplifies things I think.

I ended up going ahead and starting on a gfx-hal based project, so I think it's unlikely that I'll put in the PR for glium to be pushed forward, but we can leave this open for others to find.

[KeyMaster-]

I started using glium recently and actually did this upgrade for the winit changes. See my fork (https://github.com/KeyMaster-/glium) for that, I only made the absolutely minimal changes to get it working, but not much was needed (see here).
I could PR this if it'd be something worth building on.

[Lokathor]

that sounds great to contribute!

[est31]

@KeyMaster- wow, that's nice! Feel free to file a PR. You should probably call the version "0.25.0-alpha1" but otherwise it looks great.

[KeyMaster-]

Just submitted the PR, see #1757. I also pulled in the 0.25.1 changes.

[est31]

It's released: https://crates.io/crates/glium/0.26.0-alpha1

Some examples are broken, which is a blocker for the 0.26.0 release: #1758