[Xcb] New libxcb and xcb-proto releases (code name: "Oh, shit")

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Thu Nov 14 12:49:23 PST 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 21:22:09 +0100, Uli Schlachter wrote:

> On 14.11.2013 21:02, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 18:52:22 +0100, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> >> After the release:
> >> - xcb-proto master:
> >>   - revert GE introduction (cherry-pick from release?)
> >> - libxcb master:
> >>   - revert GE removal (cherry-pick from release?)
> > 
> > I think defining GE in xcb-proto makes more sense than having it in
> > libxcb, at least for 1.10.  Any chance you could be convinced to not
> > revert these? :)
> 
> That's easy: Convince the code generator to generate the struct the way it was
> defined in xcb.h.
> 
Why?  If it was wrong before (pad0 wasn't padding), and it's right now,
that should be fine.  It's a minor API change, but the ABI is unchanged
so I don't think that needs to be a problem.

Cheers,
Julien


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