Proposal for integrating Looking Glass Xorg Mods into Xorg Release 7.1

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:41:24PM -0800, Deron Johnson wrote:
> 
> I have been discussing with Paul Anderson the integration of Project
> Looking Glass modifications for Xorg Release 7.1.  All of the source
> modifications are enclosed in #ifdef LG3D, so they are easy to
> identify. The plan is to integrate these modifications into 7.1 but
> have the LG3D symbol be undefined by default.

This sounds like away towards a maintaince desaster.  Ifdefs all over
the tree will give your a single source tree without different behaviour
all over.  It would be much better if you kept new code in separate
files with a few central places that call out to it.