Le jeudi 21 février 2008, à 14:58 -0500, Paul Davis a écrit :
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 16:21 -0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> 
> > 
> > One major change happened not so long ago (I think 1.0 version was 
> > released in 2007) was the migration from Xlib to a new low-level 
> > implementation of the X protocol in C, the XCB [0] which provides a 
> > foundation for toolkits to build upon. Probably none of the biggest 
> > toolkits use XCB.
> 
> unlike many of the various X extensions, XCB has never received
> ratification from any X-related standards group. information about it
> online makes it appear that development on it is mostly dead, with
> several "rare but annoying bugs" remaining.

Last time I tried Ubuntu, the libx11 package (Xlib if you prefer)
depended on XCB:
 http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libx11-6

Also, the mailing list seems quite active:
 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/

Doesn't look dead to me...

Vincent

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