[Xcb] Status of XCB and howto begin

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Josh Triplett wrote:

> Vincent Torri wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Barton C Massey wrote:
> >>Visibility support?  I thought we'd decided on a plan for
> >>that also...
> >
> > iirc, there was 2 ways
> > 1) adding -fvisibility=hidden and exporting all the needed symbols (Josh's
> > preferred way)
> > 2) hiding the xcb internal functions (Jamey's preferred way)
> >
> > and none of them was chosen.
>
> A clarification: now that Jamey pointed out that visibility was intended
> solely as an optimization and not an API-enforcing mechanism, I agree
> with the second option.

i'll try to make a patch for this today or tomorrow, then

Vincent