[Xcb] xcb-proto minor release without breaking changes?

[Christian Linhart]

Hi,

What about doing a new major release?

As far as I can tell, the protocol definitions and the generator are OK now.

What is the state of the other parts of XCB?

Cheers,

Chris

On 2016-05-01 09:53, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 15.01.2016 um 16:24 schrieb Uli Schlachter:
>> Am 12.01.2016 um 09:54 schrieb Michael Stapelberg:
>>> Uli, would you be willing to do a minor release with the xcb-proto changes
>>> mentioned above? I’d much appreciate it!
>> I'm no expert on xcb-proto and would thus prefer if someone else did that minor
>> release. Perhaps there are also other safe patches in git that should be
>> included in the release?
>>
>> Does anyone else feel qualified to check and prepare a release?
> Ok, let's try something else:
>
> - Does anyone mind having a xcb-proto minor release with just the RANDR 1.5
> patch included?
>
> - Are there any other patches in xcb-proto which you would like to have in a
> release?
>
> (- Will distros rebuild their packages against a newer xcb-proto if there is no
> libxcb release at the same time?)
>
>
>
> Looking through "git log --reverse -p 1.11..", here are some suggestions for
> patches to include:
>
> commit e6b0b4da4a6942171cef767f31008614f96ec3a3
> Author: Christian Linhart <chris at DemoRecorder.com>
> Date:   Wed Aug 13 15:39:14 2014 +0200
>
>     xinput: ChangeFeedbackControl: add missing pad
>
> commit 8e3db42d67a0035bb16d16da28bd5eea7a269178
> Author: Christian Linhart <chris at DemoRecorder.com>
> Date:   Wed Aug 13 15:40:07 2014 +0200
>
>     xinput: SetDeviceModifierMapping: fix length of pad
>
> There are many more align pad patches which might be safe to include, e.g. all
> the "add align-pad at end"-patches.
> Opinions?
>
> commit 6b832a008ada81a98d4a7d3c2d6834e5a1fb50a9
> Author: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at google.com>
> Date:   Mon Jul 27 09:28:11 2015 +0200
>
>     randr: add RandR 1.5 requests and data types
>
> commit e500bd837be8366830deb703a7d22d13020fe4c5
> Author: Ingo Bürk <ingo.buerk at tngtech.com>
> Date:   Mon Sep 21 22:36:36 2015 +0200
>
>     Fix examples which use xcb_connection instead of the correct xcb_connection_t.
>
>
> Also, the shortlog since the last release is huge. We really should also work on
> a new major release. What's missing? Is anyone working on the missing bits?
>
> Cheers,
> Uli