[Xcb] GSoC 2009: XKB and XI2 support

Eamon Walsh ewalsh.mailinglists at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 17:51:39 PST 2010


Peter Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Julien Danjou wrote:
>   
>> I see no progress about this and I've the feeling we're going to lost Mariusz
>> work, which would really suck.
>>
>> So any update on the status of this merge ?
>>     
>
> I looked, and there was no support for any of the interesting new
> constructs in the libxcb part of the GSOC work. What was there broke
> xproto.c generation.
>
> I have a hard time merging just the protocol bits if libxcb can't read
> them, so I put that on hold until I find time (ha!) to design what the
> libxcb interface should look like, and write a libxcb generator to
> generate it.
>
> If we (as a project) are fine with protocol bits existing before
> libxcb can do anything useful with them, I can go ahead and push. But
> I have a sinking suspicion that we might want to rev the protocol
> definition when we get a better idea of what libxcb wants from it.
>   

Push the proto bits.  I have some time to work on the Python parser. 
They can always be disabled until they are ready.

--Eamon W.



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