[Xcb] Bug 6254: remove XCB's xproto/X11 dependency

Jeremy A. Kolb jkolb at brandeis.edu
Wed Mar 15 13:55:07 PST 2006


On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Ian Osgood wrote:

> 
> On Mar 15, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:27:01AM -0800, Ian Osgood wrote:
> >
> >> Time to write more demos?
> >
> > That would be awesome. Are you volunteering? :-)
> >
> > A nice selection of ports from the xorg/app CVS module would lead to
> > some useful tools without too much work.
> >
> > --Jamey
> 
> Any apps in particular that would showcase XCB's unique qualities  
> (threading, latency hiding, direct protocol...)?
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> Re: Alp's work:
> 
> What is the canonical source for the X protocol definition? Is there  
> a link from the wiki? I've been working from a combination of X.org  
> headers and comments, and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1013.txt from  
> 1987 which I found linked from Wikipedia.

Hey Ian,

There's a lot of stuff in xc/doc/hardcopy (from the xorg server) and a few 
(like xf86dri or glx) scattered around the net.  Be careful of the 
headers, they usually aren't as clear as one would like.

Jeremy



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