[Xcb] Python generator / cairo problems

[Ian Osgood]

On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Ian Osgood wrote:

>
> On Apr 21, 2008, at 7:52 AM, Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
>
>> Ian,
>>
>> Are you refering to Felix Rabe's email?  It looks like he sorted it
>> out.
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Ian Osgood wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Now that we have the python generator (sweeeeeet)...
>>>
>>> Speaking of which...
>>>
>>> A rant about building the cairo XCB backend was just posted on the
>>> cairo mailing list.  From the logs, it may have to do with the new
>>> python code generator.
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>
> Thanks, I spoke too soon. His HOWTO could use some work, though (all
> of xorg???).
>
> It is claiming Python 2.5 is required. Is it really using 2.5-only
> features, or could the version requirement be loosened to 2.4 or 2.3?
> Has anyone tried it on earlier Python versions? Should it advertise a
> requirement for a specific version of xml.etree.cElementTree? Also,
> could ElementTree be used if cElementTree is unavailable?
>
> (When baked, the XSLT file xcb.xsd should also be deleted, or make it
> a build option whether to use Python or XSLT.)
>
> (Also, has anyone measured the difference in build speed between the
> XSLT and Python code generation?)
>
> Ian

Also, I thought the Python generator was adding some new constructs  
for the Xinput or XSELinux protocol descriptions, but I haven't seen  
any recent changes to xcb/proto/doc/xml-xcb.txt

Ian