[Xcb] what needs to happen for libxcb 1.8?

[Peter Harris]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net> wrote:
> A number of important bug fixes have piled up on libxcb master, so we
> probably need a new release soon. But I'm not sure what we have now is
> suitable for release. So, questions for all of you:
>
> - What issues are you aware of?

There's a few in my inbox, but I'm away from the computer with my
inbox at the moment. I'll have a look on Monday, but I think there's
only one really important issue I am aware of:

> For my part: I seem to recall somebody saying that ListExtensions is
> broken in master. That seems important. :-)

It's at the top of my "free time" TODO list, but I don't forsee any
"free time" soon.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34037

> Reviewing the commits
> since 1.7, it looks to me like the XKB merge was the only big,
> high-risk change, so I assume that's related.

Yes, that merge caused the breakage.

> I guess Evgeny's
> alignment proposal is intended as a fix? Since it would be great to
> have XKB support, I'd like to see this cleaned up soon; the
> alternative is to revert the XKB merge, do a release, and then try
> getting XKB in again.

I haven't had a chance to look at it in detail yet. I suspect it is
fixable without Evgeny's proposal, but I really like the idea of
explicit padding everywhere. If it's ready to go, I'd be overjoyed to
see explicit padding instead of kludging the unwritten padding
ruleset.

Peter Harris