[PATCH libXfont] Eliminate calls back to X server or font server functions by name

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 12:17:04 PDT 2015


Hi Keith,

On 2 September 2015 at 08:15, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> This eliminates the weak symbol adventures and makes all of the calls
> back to the X server or Font server go through a table of functions
> instead, clarifying the required API.
>
> As this is a rather major change to the API for the library, it now
> installs itself as libXfont_2 instead of libXfont, and the package
> config file is now xfont_2.pc.
>
There are very few projects that use underscore as above. The most
common approach is libXfont-2, although some prefer libXfont2.

Just a small fyi, rather than trying to impose anything :)

-Emil


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