[PATCH resent] Death to Multibuffer extension

Tiago Vignatti vignatti at freedesktop.org
Wed Apr 7 11:30:17 PDT 2010


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Tiago Vignatti wrote:
>> The rationale behind is because no sane application will use this when we have
>> modern APIs such DRI2.
> 
> Isn't DBE the more direct replacement for MBX?  The MBX spec [1] says:
>   The Multi-Buffering extension described here was a draft standard of
>   the X Consortium prior to Release 6.1. It has been superseded by the
>   Double Buffer Extension (DBE). DBE is an X Consortium Standard as of
>   Release 6.1.
> 

correct, DBE might be the direct replacement for MBX...

...but the question in table is: do we care for MBX on our next X 
servers? I couldn't see no one pointing any application using it so far.


                Tiago


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