[Xorg] Re: Proposed: xlibs

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 18:27, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 09:42:00AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > I'm proposing xlibs with this mail.
> > 
> > Rationale:
> > Everyone uses and loves X. The current list of xlibs modules is:
> > Extensions - CompositeExt, DamageExt, FixesExt, ResourceExt,
> >              PanoramiXExt, RecordExt, XCalibrateExt, ScrnSaverExt,
> >              XExtensions, Xproto, PM, Randr, Render
> > Libraries - FS, ICE, SM, X11, XCalibrare, XRes, XTrap, Xau, Xext,
> >             Xcomposite, Xcursor, Xdamage, Xdmcp, Xi, Xfixes, Xfont,
> > 	    Xfontcache, Xft, Xinerama, Xmu, Xtst, Xrandr, Xrender, Xss,
> > 	    Xv, Xxf86dga, Xxf86misc, Xxf86rush, Xxf86vm, xkbfile, xkbui
> > Data - xkbdesc
> > Bastard half-children of the 80's - xtrans
> > Half-supported libraries - Xaw, Xp, Xpm, Xt
> > 
> > The half-supported libraries are to be considered deprecated. While they
> > will be included in this platform release, and will be until such time
> > as they are no longer enjoying widespread use, they are to be removed in
> > later releases.
> 
> This is more difficult than it appears - there are two competing
> versions of xlibs out there (modular and monolithic). Thus, I think what
> we need to do here is specify that this component can also be fulfilled
> by a full installation of X11R6.7 (either 6.7.0 or 6.7.1), and leave it
> at that.
> 
> ... but pkg-config support is pretty much essential. So we'd need to
> port the pkg-config stuff back to 6.7.1 if we are to depend upon that.
> 
> X.Org guys: do I have approval to add this stuff into the tree tonight,
> even if I do miss the feature freeze by an hour or two? If we can get
> pkg-config support in for all the libraries, paralleling what is in the
> modular tree, that would rock, and make the platform release a lot
> smoother.

As a distro maintainer, I would *really* appreciate having the pkgconfig
in and working.  I'm not the release engineer, but I'd think if you can
get it working by freeze (midnight hawaiian time), you'd be great.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta at lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt at FreeBSD.org