[Xcb] libX11 release

[Donnie Berkholz]

Jamey Sharp wrote:
> 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?

> 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.

OK, but I'm curious how you want to get lots of testing with XCB if you
don't want releases of one of the main packages using it. =)

How would it work for you if we branched off the current libX11 master
HEAD and turned XCB off by default? Perhaps the use of deprecated
functions could be fixed before a release, that would prevent breakage
even though it would ship with some other known bugs.

> 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?

I would, but what's the point unless we're also able to ship a version
of libX11 that supports it (thus a release from master branch)? I don't
see XCB just sitting there by itself getting a whole lot of testing and
use without any packages that use it. I suppose it could be enabled for
Mesa, but I just ran into a problem there. =)

>> 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.

No clue ... I haven't been looking, people just mention this stuff to me
for some reason when I say I'm emailing the XCB list.

Thanks,
Donnie

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