Qery on Xlib project idea on summer of code page

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Tue Jun 14 10:22:55 PDT 2011



Am 14.06.2011 18:52, schrieb nijil yes:
> Hi,
> I am interested in working on the idea mentioned on summer of code page on 
> replacing CMS code inside libX11 with libXcm.I would be glad to get a few more 
> details on the work involved and such things.If there is anyone already assigned 
> for the project as a mentor or if anyone is interested in mentoring that one 
> please reply.I have asked in the irc channel on this but dint receive any 
> replies.Also if there is anyone who has already/is working on this, I would be 
> glad if you could help me out to get started.If you could mention the irc nick I 
> will ping you back in the channel.
> 
> cheers,
> Nijil.
> 


Hello Nijil,
the old code in libX11 is a bit fragil.
nicely Kai-Uwe Behrmann provided an libXcm some time ago.
IMHO you need to evaluate:
* can libXcm map Xcms calls ?
* is Xcms.txt compartibel ?
* testsetup for Xcm

for detail on libXcm you should contact Kai-Uwe Behrmann

re,
 wh



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