Re: autotooling xrandr

2003-08-14 Thread Egbert Eich
Warren Turkal writes: Is there any chance of upstream acceptance of this type of work? A lot of the utility binaries should be pretty easy to break out the xc hierarchy. This issue is coming up from time to time and I have jet failed to understand the benefit of breaking out things out

Re: autotooling xrandr

2003-08-14 Thread Aidan Kehoe
Ar an 13ú lá de mí 8, scríobh Egbert Eich : Bug #72 has not been committed as it is not yet clear what your final conclusions are. Perhaps a comment to that effect could have been added to the bug? Anyway, as I said, I don't have the free time any more. If anyone else wants to take that on,

autotooling xrandr

2003-08-14 Thread Warren Turkal
As an excercise, I autotooled xrandr. It was easy for xrandr, and I expect it would be easy for a number of other small utility programs in the X distribution. The source for this experiment is located at http://ss.kicks-ass.org/~wt/development/xfree86-autotool/xrandr/. Are there any efforts to

Re: autotooling xrandr

2003-08-14 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:53:32PM +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote: Ar an 12ú lá de mí 8, scríobh Harold L Hunt II : However, I wouldn't expect a lot of interest from others, as this gets mentioned every so often but the person suggesting it often gives up after they realize how large of a job it

Re: autotooling xrandr

2003-08-14 Thread Warren Turkal
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Warren, Most people are probably smart enough not to respond to this... so I will take the plunge for all of them :) Autotooling xrandr might not have been too hard, for one platform and one version of the autotools. However, autotooling X as a whole might

Re: autotooling xrandr

2003-08-14 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:36:09AM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: As an excercise, I autotooled xrandr. It was easy for xrandr, and I expect it would be easy for a number of other small utility programs in the X distribution. The source for this experiment is located at

Re: autotooling xrandr

2003-08-14 Thread Aidan Kehoe
Ar an 12ú lá de mí 8, scríobh Harold L Hunt II : However, I wouldn't expect a lot of interest from others, as this gets mentioned every so often but the person suggesting it often gives up after they realize how large of a job it is. I would venture to say too that since the build system