[Xcb] XKB once again ...

Barton C Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Tue Jan 8 15:46:26 PST 2008


Absolutely wonderful!  You two go for it, and let us know as
you fix things.  And yes, I still owe some commits.

Thomas.....we need your bits, Thomas.... :-) :-)

	Bart

In message <4783DBFC.1050400 at hummingbird.com> you wrote:
> Mark Seaborn wrote:
> > I actually started playing around
> > with xproto.xml in mid-2005 with some Perl code.  I picked up the idea
> > two years later and started again with Python but kept the modified
> > xproto.xml.  So the definition has diverged a bit with padding fixes,
> > type definitions for <valueparam>s, etc.
> 
> It sounds like you're doing something similar to what I'm doing. I just 
> recently started annotating fields with the enum that they reference, 
> and have plans to make even more changes. I would prefer to avoid 
> duplication of effort, though.
> 
> My changes so far are at ("gitweb" web page): 
> http://repo.or.cz/w/xcbproto/enum.git
> 
> Assuming I've found your xproto.xml correctly[1], it looks like you've 
> branched from an older version of xproto.xml that does not contain as 
> many enums. My current plan involves modifying some of the existing 
> enums to look a lot like your 'bitfield'. I think I prefer <bit 
> type="CARD32" enum="Gravity"> over <bit type="CARD32 : 0=Forget, ...">, 
> but I'm not terribly picky. Perhaps we can collaborate?
> 
> I welcome any comments.
> 
> Peter Harris
> 
> [1] 
> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/plash/scratch/x11-proxy/ext/xproto.xml?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=593
> 
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