Extention extention

Soeren Sandmann sandmann at daimi.au.dk
Fri Oct 8 15:22:05 PDT 2004


Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> writes:

> > I remember someone saying that s/he wrote the extention extention,
> > Is it in a working state?would it get into cvs soon?
> > Are there any docs about the API?
> 
> Søren posted a precis covering the scope of the problem and the suggested 
> solutions:
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-July/001744.html
> 
> The general opinion was that a meta-extension was not the right solution, and 
> that a extending xlib or porting toolkits to xcb would yield almost identical 
> results.  He later posted a patch that extended xlib with an 
> XPrefetchExtensions call:
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-August/002156.html

And then I dropped the ball ... I do hope to pick it up again some
time soon.


Søren



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