Redirected XV (proposed API change)
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Fri Feb 24 11:08:07 PST 2006
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:28:58AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 02:42 -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote:
>
> > The ABI's already broken due to David Reveman's glyph private changes
> > (http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg/render/glyphstr.h?r1=1.7&r2=1.8)
>
> This change should be conditional, and disabled by default.
>
> Here's a patch which does that.
That's horrible. Changing a public ABI depending on configure-time
options is bound to generate chaos. Now I'd say the xserver module ABI
shouldn't be public at all, but I know you disagree ;-)
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