[Xcb] State of XInputExtension

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 01:27:50PM +0100, Christian Linhart wrote:
> Hi Uli,
> 
> I think that XINPUT-support in XCB is complete now, with the changes that I have pushed today.
> However, I'd like to get at least one second opinion on that before we enable it by default.

ah, that's great to hear, thanks!

> Especially, the newest changes in
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/inputproto/
> should be cross-checked with xinput.xml in xcb/proto.
> Most of my changes are based on the state of the XINPUT-spec from 2014 or so.

there haven't been any serious changes to the protocol since inputproto 2.3
(March 2013), it was just spit and polish after that. The only one that
could have an effect on xcb is 
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/inputproto/commit/?id=c2cf8cab4aa781306ff26b171107d26f12bac015
but that one only if you managed to copy that typo :)

Cheers,
   Peter

> Thank you for asking for a list of remaining issues:
> There is such a list: it is in the comment at the beginning of xinput.xml.
> I have forgotten about this list, and therefore forgotten to remove it.
> I'll post a patch for that, soon.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> P.S.: I didn't realize that pthread_stubs is an extra library. :-)
> 
> On 2017-03-11 12:19, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > On 11.03.2017 11:58, Christian Linhart wrote:
> >> When you prepare the release please update the version-dependency
> >> between libxcb and proto.
> >>
> >> There is at least one change so that libxcb only builds when proto is up to date.
> > I only plan to do a pthread-stubs release. No libxcb or xcb-proto
> > release. But thanks for the pointer. :-)
> >
> >
> > I'll switch the topic:
> >
> > Thanks for your work on the Input protocol. Sorry that I cannot help
> > much there. However, I was wondering about: What is the state of XInput
> > support in XCB? As far as I know, it is the only remaining extension
> > that is of wider interest[1] and that is not enabled by default in XCB.
> > Do we have a list of remaining issues or something like that?
> >
> > [1]: This seems to exclude Xprint and SELinux.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Uli
> >
>