Status of xgl?

[Ori Bernstein]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:58:46 +0200, "Hanno Böck" <ml at hboeck.de> said:


> Beside that, is there a reason why xorg-server is still one package? After the 
> splitting, it would seem to be obvious to me to have an xorg-server, 
> kdriver-server, xgl-server package etc. That would make merging obsolete and 
> xgl could have it's own releases. But it'd probably need some more splitting 
> to move out the redundant parts.

Well, the reason is that there's a large amount of shared code (the DIX) that
gets hooked rather deeply into the various X servers. I suppose that the DIX
could be factored out into a shared library (libxorgdix.so or such) but nobody
really did it, and it doesn't seem to be especially high on the priority list
of anyone working on Xorg.