[Xcb] libX11 release

[Jamey Sharp]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:12:45PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> We're looking to push out a libX11 release soon, since the current
> release won't build with the latest released xproto. But what's the
> situation with XCB?
> 
> Should we:

You should be taking the libX11 "stable" branch. If that doesn't have
the fixes you need, they should be cherry-picked from master. I guess
this is technically Keithp's job if he's libX11 maintainer?

> 1) default on with xcb using the 0.9 release, or will this break stuff
> at 1.0, or be unstable, etc?

XCB 0.9 is functionally complete as far as I remember, but Bugzilla
remembers better than I do. (Which I guess makes me thoroughly
pathetic.) However, the functions currently marked deprecated will be
removed before the 1.0 release, and the master branch of libX11 still
uses some of those, so both will have to upgrade simultaneously. This
plus some other Xlib-specific bugs are blocking an Xlib/XCB preview
release.

> 3) wait until xcb 1.0 ( What are the blockers here? )

We have a tracker bug for that:
	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6797

But the big thing we're waiting for is testing from a wider audience.
... So maybe I should be encouraging you to ship Xlib/XCB and the 0.9
release of XCB in Gentoo for a while?

> Also, Fredrik just said some of the extensions were out of data, e.g.
> Xrender 2 releases behind.

Ah, the price of innovation. We've missed two revs of RENDER? Somebody
certainly should update the protocol descriptions: I've filed bug #7125
to track that. Anything else we're behind on? Please file a bug for each
extension that we need to update.

Thanks,
--Jamey
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