Yes, is this not the esiest way to extend the protocol, by adding a new
field to a string value?

--- Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:34, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > Ohh, is it realy that hard of a feature to add??
> > 
> > foo:bar
> > 
> > Old systems try to open "<path>/foo:bar_dri.so" and maby thay will
> fail or
> > there will be a symlink there.  A simpl parser could be added, making
> a
> > new system pars for the ':' and try each one.
> 
> That solution sounds worse than the problem -- break all new DDX vs old
> libGL for the sake of one (questionable, IMO) DDX's requirement that
> could be handled easier with a symlink.
> 
> The thing to do, if this feature were really desired, would be to extend
> the XF86DRI protocol.
> 
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