Detach from winit?

[kvark]

Winit releases new versions quite often, at least more often than surfman. And it's a dependency of surfman. So once we start depending on surfman in Gecko, there is a problem of dependency duplication that could arise from winit (e.g. cocoa stuff). Gecko doesn't like duplicated dependencies because Mercurial is bad at vendoring them.

Would it be possible to somehow avoid depending on winit in sm-winit feature? Perhaps, by moving the stable part of winit into a separate crate, or something like that.

[kvark]

Actually, it looks like surfman also depends on the macOS crates directly, so it's already in trouble :/
I wonder how Servo team planned to manage the dependency duplication here?

[jdm]

We allow duplication on a crate-by-crate basis in https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/071d1d824833dc6103251591e07d8e1bdcea39c0/servo-tidy.toml#L29-L79.

[wusyong]

surfman now has a sm-raw-window-handle that can feed it with raw window types.
I'm thinking about making an abstraction in servo demo too. So other windowing tools like glazier, or other tool kits like Gtk can use servo too.
But Connection::from_raw_display_handle is added after 0.6.
Could surfman publish another version if any maintainer has time?

[jdm]

Published!

[atouchet]

This was done in #271.