[Xcb] [RFC v-1] API with 64bit seq. and more love for requests

[Daniel Martin]

On 26 February 2013 08:37, Bart Massey <bart at cs.pdx.edu> wrote:
> As far as "event-driven programming" goes, the
> never-seriously-implemented plan was always to have a separate layer
> above XCB, perhaps in a separate thread, that was an event queue and
> dispatch mechanism.

Do you mean this mail by Jamey (thanks Peter for pointing me there)?:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2010-September/006480.html

> I've got nothing against event queues (OK, maybe,
> but let's pretend); I just don't think they should be buried in a
> library that's supposed to be a low-level protocol binding.

With "more event driven" I didn't thought of new queues. I just wanted to
add an XPending() equivalent, which reports replies too.

But, I must admit, after reading this proposal of Jamey, I like the idea of
those first-class queues. ;)