[ANNOUNCE] evieext 1.1.1

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Jan 5 18:23:06 PST 2011


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On 01/ 5/11 06:13 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> This extension defines a protocol for a client to determine information
> about core X visuals beyond what the core protocol provides. 

Oops, that's the description of the EVI extension, which I failed to notice
had been placed in the XEvIE protocol README by mistake.  Sorry about that.

The README has now been corrected in git:

Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 5 18:18:27 2011 -0800

    Correct README to describe XEvIE instead of EVI extension

    Yes, we had two little used extensions with very different
    purposes but very similar names.   Naming is hard.

    While we're in here, document that this extension is no longer
    supported in the Xserver.

    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>

diff --git a/README b/README
index e49ea91..b09dda7 100644
- --- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
- -                       Extended Visual Information Extension (XEVIE)
+XEvIE - X Event Interception Extension

+XEvIE is a X extension providing functionalities to allow users
+intercept keyboard/mouse events.

- -This extension defines a protocol for a client to determine information
- -about core X visuals beyond what the core protocol provides.
+It was included in X11R6.8 through Xorg server 1.5, but is no
+longer supported in current X server releases (and didn't actually
+work in the last releases that did include it).

- -- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

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