Pixman dependency
David Nusinow
dnusinow at speakeasy.net
Tue May 15 16:38:00 PDT 2007
Hi Soeren,
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:21:48PM +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As a heads up, over the next few days I'll be adding a hard dependency
> on the pixman library, which is available from a git repository on
>
> git.freedesktop.org/git/pixman
>
> Then I am going to move code from the X server into this library. The
> code in question is:
>
> - region code
> - compositing code from fb
> - trapezoid rasterization from fb
>
> I don't expect any API or ABI changes from this as the pixman
> datatypes are binary compatible and I'll leave the existing typedef
> names in place.
Would you mind explaining the motivation behind this? I saw your commits to
git, but I must have missed the rationale behind it somehow. Thanks!
- David Nusinow
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