X.Org modules which could use some help to release

Jon Turney jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk
Sun Jul 21 09:08:33 UTC 2019


On 16/07/2019 20:07, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:31 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 7/15/19 4:02 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>>
>>> libWindowsWM
>>
>> This is supposed to only be useful on Cygwin, but a Cygwin package search
>> says they don't ship it, and it hasn't had a release since 2009,  so I
>> wonder if anyone uses it, or just keeps building it because no one ever
>> said "stop".

I think this can be archived, so I'll say "Stop!" :-)

> In principle it would be useful for any window manager that happens to
> be driving a server with that extension (likely only on win32), but if
> you're running your wm on a different machine/os from your win32
> display you are doing something kinda weird.
> 
> In practice, I had trouble finding _any_ window manager that used this
> extension, and the server-side code has been deleted in master:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/merge_requests/178

I guess the corresponding proto header in xorgproto should be moved to 
attic/ as well.


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