[Xcb] xproto and Generic Events

[Antoine Latter]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Peter Harris <pharris at opentext.com> wrote:
> On 2010-12-26 21:27, Antoine Latter wrote:
>> Hi XCB,
>>
>> The file 'src/ge.xml' is in source control for xproto 1.6, but it
>> isn't in the xproto 1.6 tarball.
>>
>> Is this a problem? The file doesn't really seem to define much, but
>> someone must have wrote it for some reason.
>
> It's not a problem for libxcb, since it doesn't need anything from that
> file (yet). Do you have a different generator that needs the current ge.xml?
>
> There's a patch making its way through the xorg-devel list that adds
> more functions to ge.xml, and also adds it to the list of files to be
> installed. Hopefully this should be fixed when it lands.
>
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-December/017315.html
>

I don't have any other generator which would currently need it. I was
just confused by the situation.

Thanks for the explanation.


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