RFC: New libxcvt library

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:59 AM Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Currently. the Xorg Xserver has its own implementation of the VESA CVT standard timing modelines generator in `hw/xfree86/modes/xf86cvt.c`.
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> That code is placed in its own source file alone because it is also being used by the `cvt` utility.
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> Because it's part of the Xorg DDX, Xwayland, which is another DDX also has a copy of the same code in `hw/xwayland/xwayland-cvt.c`.
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> Now with Xwayland being a standalone package, mutter which uses the cvt utility at build time still needs to install `cvt` from Xorg to generate the modes used in Wayland.
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> Some time ago, discussing with Jonas Adahl on irc, we thought it would be a good idea to have that code and utility part of its own standalone project, to avoid the code duplication and possibly ease contributions.
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> That was https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1142
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> So I went ahead and did just that, called it “libxcvt” and placed in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ofourdan/libxcvt
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> I also made a merge request to use that code in the Xserver: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/637
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> Can we consider moving “libxcvt” to the xorg/lib namespace in gitlab?

This is great and will help in packaging mutter and Wayland-only systems.

Can we please move this to the xorg/lib namespace and tag a release?
(Cc'ing daniels for the namespace move)

Thanks!