[PATCH x11proto] Add X prefix to certain #define's in X.h.

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Jul 7 11:56:20 PDT 2014


Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> writes:

> That needs to be fixed in Qt then - we're not going to break 25+ years worth
> of X applications because someone came along years later and misused
> the name.

Yeah, sadly, X was developed before we had a good set of conventions for
naming symbols in public interfaces. So many names without reasonable
prefixes.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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