[Xorg] Xinerama backward compatibility issues
Egbert Eich
eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Thu Feb 19 10:41:30 PST 2004
Alan Coopersmith writes:
> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> > That's correct, no attempt has been made -- so far -- to preserve BC at
> > the wire protocol level. (Nobody has made the case that it needs to be,
> > either. Not yet anyway.)
>
> 5 years of deploying software using the old interfaces and protocols means
> we'd break a lot of interoperability if backwards compatibility wasn't there.
> Deprecating them is good, removing them is not.
>
That would apply to the removal of the panoramiX requests from
the wire protocol.
I don't see the benefit of the rest of the changes.
The lib API is more standard conform as the XineramaGetData() call
now returns a status instead of a pointer to a list. The list is
returned in one of its arguments.
The XineramaActive() call just got a Window ID added - which I fail
to understand.
Egbert.
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