Merged repo for protocol headers? Why are they split?

Dylan Baker dylan at pnwbakers.com
Tue Nov 21 23:28:20 UTC 2017


Quoting Keith Packard (2017-11-21 12:51:24)
> Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> writes:
> 
> > Also, git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/newproto appears to contain
> > the script used to generate the merged repo.
> 
> Right, that's probably more useful today. The trick was to get the
> headers merged without losing any of the history.
> 
> > I would be entirely in favor of merging the protocol header repos,
> > fwiw. For that matter I'd be in favor of generating them from the xcb
> > xml, but let's burn one bridge at a time.
> 
> Who wants to take another run at this wall?
> 
> -- 
> -keith

Your script splits each proto into a subdirectory, does it really make sense to
do that, or should the final proto package have everything together in the root?

Dylan
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