[Spice-devel] repository reorg
Alon Levy
alevy at redhat.com
Wed Jun 22 08:00:10 PDT 2011
Hi All,
We currently have the following repositories:
spice-protocol
spice
spice-gtk
spice-protocol contains the following parts:
qxl_dev.h - required by qemu and drivers
controller.h - required by spice client and xpi/active-x
the rest - protocol definitions for server and client
spice is composed of
codegen - generation of marshallers, demarshallers, and defines that go into spice-protocol.
server - server implementation
client - old client implementation
common - shared by server and client, further subdivided to:
glz/lz/quic encoders and decoders
cache implementation
canvas rendering implementation
used by the server, old client and new client.
Inefficiencies with the current repositories:
1. updates to the protocol need to go to spice/spice.proto, run the codegen,
and put the results to spice-protocol
2. common exists in both spice and spice-gtk. since it hasn't been touched in
a while it isn't a real problem, but still the code duplication is bad and
in the future (3d canvas) it will be modified.
Suggested changes:
spice - merge spice-protocol into it
spice-protocol - kill it
common - extract to a separate library, it's own configure, pkg-config, name it spice-render,
and have spice-gtk and spice (server and old client) rely on it.
spice-gtk - keep it as is. easier to develop with a separate configure since it doesn't contain
all the requirement checks for the server.
Suggestion is Marc-Andre's but he didn't think it was important enough to discuss, I take
responsibility for the time wasted as a result of this email.
Alon
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