[Xcb] about api changes
Thomas Hunger
hto at arcor.de
Tue Jul 10 08:52:12 PDT 2007
Hello,
I want to warm up this topic, at least for the changes which I'd like
to introduce for sure. No. 2 would break the current API! It would be
great if someone sees any problems/additions now. Then we would not
need to break the API again.
1) Remove the xxx_request_t structures from the headers. They are only
needed internally to pack data for requests. The opcode-defines
could go as well. Are they useful for anything?
2) New naming conventions in structs/replies. The field-names in
replies and structs (e.g. nameLen-> name_len in xprint.xml). This
could be solved in two ways: a) apply naming filter to all names or
b) write them correctly in the xml files.
Solution b) has the advantage that in the case someone really needs
a name which is not coherent with the naming convention, she could
introduce it.
Tom
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