On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:03:56AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vigna...@nokia.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:14:18AM +0200, ext Keith Packard wrote: > >> > >> In my ideal world, a user interested in trying out the latest driver > >> bits for their video card would have to download two modules, the > >> protocol headers and the X server/drivers. Just merging the protocol > >> headers together gets us to four -- headers/server/video/evdev. Yeah, > >> there are also kernel/mesa/libdrm issues, and we should figure out how > >> to make that easier too. > >> > > > > Well, the user would have also to care about some libraries: libpciaccess, > > libXfont, libfontenc, libXau, libpixman, libxdmcp and etc, just to mention > > some. So, besides protocol and drivers, do we intent to merge libraries > > back? > > Only a couple libraries are used from the server, and ideally none of > the X libraries. On the client side, people have this under control > and often just use the libraries from their distro. I would hope the > libraries don't get merged together
What stops them from being merged together, they will already be, to some large extent, in lock-step on the proto stuff. Update the proto amalgamut, and you're update the libs. It won't take long until the next person with the next "bright idea" comes along. Luc Verhaegen _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
