[Xcb] On the python generator and other things

[Jeremy A. Kolb]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Thomas Hunger wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am happy to anounce I was accepted for the google SOC! The first 
> part of my work is a rewrite of the c-binding-generator in python.
> 
> I already started that half-heartedly a few month ago. Then I got 
> stuck with the iterator generation because I could not figure out 
> which iterator or accessor functions were generated when.
> 
> The last two days were spend to figure that out. Today I rewrote the 
> generator from scratch twice. I tried to be clever, but I hit too 
> many special cases. In the end it comes down to a lot of work.
> 
> There is a git repository which can be used like this (using a fairly 
> recent git with the git-remote command):
> 
> In your working copy of libxcb do:
> $ git remote add htom git://htom.de/libxcb.git
> $ git fetch htom
> $ git checkout -b th refs/remotes/htom/th
> 
> older gits can use the .git/remotes directory. Unfortunally the 
> generated c-code does not compile yet. Also the generator itself is 
> pretty unorganized because I had no time to clean up yet.
> 
> When things have settled a little I will post another mail with a 
> technical description of the new generator.
> 
> == Other things ==
> 
> There is also a stale DBE branch which I never got to work. My X 
> server tells me that DBE is not supported (although set 
> in ./configure).
> 
> $ git checkout -b dbe refs/remotes/htom/dbe
> 
> in the proto directory:
> 
> $ git remote add htom git://htom.de/proto.git
> $ git fetch htom
> $ git checkout -b dbe refs/remotes/htom/dbe
> 
> == Some questions ==
> 
> - Did anyone start with the protocol description for XKB yet?
> - How do I decide if a checked/unchecked function should be generated?
> 
> Anyway, I fear you will hear more from me in the next time :)
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
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Congrats Tom!

Thanks for putting the repo up.

By DBE do you mean the double buffering extension?  If so then I believe 
it's been deprecated in favor of... something.  I was told not to write a 
spec for it since they were trying to kill it.  I believe either keithp or 
ajax told me that on #xorg a while back.  I don't remember the replacement 
off the top of my head.

Jeremy