Suggested Xprint DDX reorg

Egbert Eich eich at suse.de
Mon Jan 9 02:04:15 PST 2006


Julien Lafon writes:
 > On 1/5/06, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
 > > We've got five DDXes that are complex enough to need or want auxiliary tools
 > > or config bits.  Right now we have:
 > >
 > > xorg/Xprint
 > > xorg/XpConfig
 > > xorg/hw/xfree86
 > > xorg/hw/xfree86/utils
 > > xorg/hw/dmx
 > > xorg/hw/dmx/config
 > > xorg/hw/darwin
 > > xorg/hw/darwin/utils
 > > xorg/hw/xwin
 > > xorg/hw/xwin/xlaunch
 > >
 > > For parallelism I'd rather see the Xprint DDX moved under hw and its config
 > > bits under that:
 > >
 > > xorg/hw/Xprint
 > > xorg/hw/Xprint/XpConfig
 > > xorg/hw/xfree86
 > > xorg/hw/xfree86/utils
 > > ...
 > >
 > > Does anyone have a compelling case against this?
 > 
 > See below.
 > 
 > > If not I'll probably shuffle
 > > this around sometime this weekend.
 > 
 > It does not sound not logical to me - Xprint DDX is no physical
 > hardware so why should it be tagged as such?

Neither is vfb or nest.
'hw' is really the wrong name here. It's historical.
Better would be 'ddx'.

Egbert.



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