On 02/28/18 01:37 PM, Keith Packard wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Xserver depending on specific version of xorgproto (which provides now all
>> these headers), instead of there being separate pgkconfig file & check for 
>> each
>> of the headers, would IMHO make this transition a lot clearer to everybody 
>> who
>> doesn't follow X mailing lists.
> 
> I suggested this to Adam, but neither of us has acted on it. We'll still
> need to ship the old .pc files for a while so that existing software
> will continue to compile, but I agree that having an xorgproto version
> that software can depend on will help with this transition.

We've had two bugs filed this morning that xserver git is broken because
it depends on a non-existent randrproto, so while the other 20-something
protos would be nice, putting a "You need to use xorgproto git instead"
notice in randrproto/configure.ac is going to save multiple people multiple
headaches.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-               [email protected]
         Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

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