[Xcb] Release package content

Barton C Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Thu Dec 11 12:32:30 PST 2008


In message <20081211103645.GF32578 at abydos.adm.naquadah.org> you wrote:
> Release 1.1.93 of libxcb, I took a look at the content of the package.
> I just realized that it includes the whole C files generated by
> c_client.py. It seems to me that's useless since they will be generated
> at compile time, since configure.in requires xcb-proto anyway.
> 
> So: what's the point of distributing this file that are autogenerated on
> *my* box, which can even be dangerous if my local copy of xcb-proto is
> bad ? :)

In case someone without python wants to compile XCB?  Or am
I missing something here?

	Bart


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