[Xcb] libX11 release

[Josh Triplett]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Jamey Sharp wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:40:34AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> Jamey Sharp wrote:
>>> How would it work for you if we branched off the current libX11 master
>>> HEAD and turned XCB off by default?
>> No, really, either use the stable branch or ship with XCB.
>>
>>> 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.
>> Yeah, I should do that anyway. :-)
> 
> So once these deprecated functions are removed, how's Xlib/XCB stand
> compared to standard Xlib? Is it equal to or better than, or do the
> remaining bugs make it less capable?
> 
> I'd be happy to see an Xlib/XCB release with known bugs that is still at
> least as good as the last Xlib release.

Of the bugs currently blocking XCB 1.0, only 6798 ("Doesn't currently
handle 32-bit wrap in sequence numbers") makes me concerned about
releasing an Xlib which uses XCB by default.  I also have some concerns
about changing the SONAME of a library libX11 depends on; we plan to
switch from libXCB.so.0 to libXCB.so.1 when we remove all the deprecated
functions and release XCB 1.0.  Other than that, I'd feel quite
comfortable with Xlib/XCB by default on end-user systems.

- Josh Triplett

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