splitting the server

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >I'd like to split off the server into smaller packages. 
> >One of the first steps: move out the xf86-hw utils into separate
> >packages. Then move out several extensions, etc, etc.
> >
> >What do you think about this ?
> 
> We tried to split the hw/xfree86/utils out of the server when we
> did modularization but it wasn't possible without moving much of
> the other hw/xfree86/* code into shared libraries and agreeing to
> an ABI for them.    

Libraries don't always have to be .so's - an fixed API is not
always necessary.

> Right now too much code is shared via static
> linking with the server itself.

Then we should move it off to an own library.


I'm now at the point where I start to split it. Evrythings what's
already an own library comes into its own package. 
I've already lost too much time with trying to get the server built.


cu
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