[PING^3] xcbproto Meson added, CI passed

[tlaronde at kergis.com]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 03:05:45PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> You might get more attention by mailing the xcb-specific mailing list,
> as noted on https://xcb.freedesktop.org/ and in the xcbproto/README.md.
> 
> But then again, you may just find that there are so few developers left,
> that there is no one who has both the knowledge and time to review
> something like this.   That is an unfortunate risk of spending your time
> on projects that others have left to slowly die.
> 

Then there is a solution: make me an Xorg developer with write access
;-)

And so if someone is disastified with what I have done the answer is:
"It's unfortunately open source software: so if you are not satisfied,
do the job yourself."

I will start with the xcb-specific mailing list though.

Thanks.

T. Laronde

> 
> On 6/28/24 05:33, tlaronde at kergis.com wrote:
> > Could I have please a judgement, one way or the other, about what I
> > have done?
> > 
> > If the developers don't want what I have done, please just say so.
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 08:01:30AM +0200, tlaronde at kergis.com wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Could I have some feedback please ?
> > > 
> > > TIA
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 09:33:21AM +0200, tlaronde at kergis.com wrote:
> > > > Is it OK? If there are things that someone doesn't think I have done
> > > > right, please give feedback---I have, I think, answered about Python
> > > > handling knowing that on OSes python third partie packages handling
> > > > is not a simple matter.
> > > > 
> > > > Can I go on with other modules?
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 05:24:48PM +0200, tlaronde at kergis.com wrote:
> > > > > The support for Meson has been added, and the CI builds and checks
> > > > > Autotools vs. Meson builds.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The byte-compilation of Python modules generates identical files due
> > > > > to:
> > > > > 	- DESTDIR correct support in the (added) compile_py.sh (note:
> > > > > 	python compileall module doesn't work correctly);
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	- Python support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, allowing (in the CI
> > > > > pipeline) to define a global such variable and then to obtain this
> > > > > date in the byte-compiled versions in two distinct jobs running at
> > > > > differing times;
> > > > > 
> > > > > The generated pc files are compared using the (added)
> > > > > xorg/util/modular/auto-meson-pc-cmp.sh, that compares the results
> > > > > semantically and not literally.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The doc here:
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://notes.kergis.com/x11_building.html
> > > > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > >          Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com>
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