With protocol additions such as [1], compositors currently have no
way to opt out of the version upgrade. The protocol upgrade will
always be backwards-compatible but may require new compositor
features.
The status quo doesn't make it possible to ship a protocol addition
without breaking the wlroots API. This will be an issue for API
stabilization [2].
To address this, let compositors provide a maximum version in the
function creating the global. We need to support all previous versions
of the interface anyways because of older clients.
This mechanism works the same way as Wayland clients passing a version
in wl_global.bind.
[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/merge_requests/3514
[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/1008
References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/3397
Some globals are static and it doesn't make sense to destroy them before
the wl_display. For instance, wl_compositor should be created before the
display is started and shouldn't be destroyed.
For these globals, we can simplify the code by removing the destructor
and stop keeping track of wl_resources (these will be destroyed with the
wl_display by libwayland).
Kirill Primak
Alexander Orzechowski
Simon Ser
Alexander Bakker