[PULL to discuss] Remove kdrive, Xnest, and Xvfb

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 04/ 3/12 11:58 AM, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 27/03/2012 05:09, Jamey Sharp wrote:
>>> However, our capstone project that just finished was a start toward
>>> replacing the XQuartz DDX with a stock Xorg server and a special
>>> client, and I'm hoping that XWin can go the same direction.
>>
>> This is certainly the approach I'd like to take, as well, rather than stuffing
>> all the WM integration code into a client thread inside the X server.
>>
>> However, replacing the Win32 native XWin (as opposed to an XWin built to use
>> the cygwin layer) with the Xorg DDX seems like it would involve a non-trivial
>> amount of work, in effectively porting the Xorg DDX to the Win32 API.
> 
> I'd be really interested to know how much of the Xorg DDX relies on
> POSIX and how much is straight C.

Relying on POSIX would be far more portable than it really is - there's lots
of non-standardized interfaces in there.   (Not even counting os-support/* which
is where most things that are utterly kernel specific and non-portable ended
up.)

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