On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 11:54 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> Daniel Martin <consume.no...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've ever wondered why are the proto headers split up into distinct
> > repos? (It takes "ages" to just copy (install) a few files with
> > autotools.)
>
> They were split as part of the great dis-aggregation. I had a prototype
> of them merged back together, but that was never finished. I'm not sure
> what the status is at this point, but you might want to look at this:
> 
>         git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/proto

Also, git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/newproto appears to contain
the script used to generate the merged repo.

I would be entirely in favor of merging the protocol header repos,
fwiw. For that matter I'd be in favor of generating them from the xcb
xml, but let's burn one bridge at a time.

- ajax
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