Merged proto package

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2010-04-12 23:58, Keith Packard wrote:
> Looks like comments on the xproto package have tapered off; I'll give
> everyone another chance, but then I'll go ahead and create a new
> xorg-level 'xproto' repository with the current bits.

I have a few outstanding questions:

1) Right now we have a bunch of COPYING files in each proto subdirectory 
and there is no top-level COPYING.  Unfortunately each proto is under a 
slightly different license, so consolidating them may have to be along 
the lines of xserver/COPYING.

2) Unless EvIE is truly returning for 1.9, I don't think that evieproto 
should be included.  We can always merge it in later (can't we?) but 
merging it in now just to split it out again later this year will wreak 
havoc with users and distributors.

In the meantime:

The following changes since commit d25b7205c7e867cb6fbb1181ce053765ecf752b8:
   Yaakov Selkowitz (1):
         Require macros-1.4 for XORG_INSTALL

are available in the git repository at:

   git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~yselkowitz/xproto master

Yaakov Selkowitz (2):
       Add top-level README
       Fix whitespace in AC_OUTPUT

  README       |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  configure.ac |    4 ++--
  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 README

> Eric had an additional suggestion this afternoon -- would it be crazy to
> consider merging util/macros and/or util/modular into this package at
> some point? Again, with the goal of making it easier to build the server
> or drivers, this would further reduce the potential necessary upstream
> bits.

Rehashing from IRC:

util/modular certainly not; nothing there is installed on the system or 
necessary for distros.

util/macros IMO also not; there have been more releases of macros then 
protos, so merging in macros would mean a longer configure run and 
installation of dozens of headers every time we add to or fix macros. 
There are also a very few packages which don't require even xproto, so 
this would change distros' deptrees slightly.  Also, from the technical 
POV, trying to *use* macros at the same time you're building it may be 
difficult.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X