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[Adam Jackson]

On Monday 09 May 2005 13:02, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:58 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > We haven't broken source compatibility with X11R1 yet; I don't know that
> > we should start.  I think moving forward we can solve this simultaneously
> > with rolling out XCB, but I'm not convinced that attempting to sanitize
> > the Xlib headers is a good idea.
>
> I think we can clean this up without breaking source compatibility by
> moving the protocol bits to new files and leaving all of the file with
> random Xlib kruft to the Xlib binding module.
>
> I'm certain we should move the X server internal pieces to separate
> files and stick them in the X server module.

If you think it's doable, then by all means let's do it.

> > MitScreenSaver would be better, on the off chance that someone wants to
> > implement SGI-SCREEN-SAVER.
>
> We can call it 'screensaver' as it's a defacto X.org standard.  if sgi
> wants a separate screen saver library, they'll have to prefix it with
> 'sgi' in any case.

SGI-SCREEN-SAVER already exists, though only in Xsgi I believe.  I just don't 
like having a non-trivial mapping between extension name and source module, 
historical accidents in library naming aside.

- ajax
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