splitting the server

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Fri May 12 01:14:08 PDT 2006


On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:50:42PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> > We tried to split the hw/xfree86/utils out of the server when we
> > did modularization but it wasn't possible without moving much of
> > the other hw/xfree86/* code into shared libraries and agreeing to
> > an ABI for them.    
> 
> Libraries don't always have to be .so's - an fixed API is not
> always necessary.

If you don't have a fixed API, then there's really no point.
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