On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 04:23:31PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 7 brumaire, an CCXXIII, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > this makes it impossible to switch between them without recompiling > > though > > > > for development and testing it may be usefull to enable both though > > > > one example are fate clients, which if these parts are mutually > > exclusive potentially wont compile test both or if they can be > > enabled at build time one wouldnt be able to select which to use at > > runtime as their names equal > > > > we maybe should introduce in addition to the default https & x11grab > > a x11grab_xcb and x11grab_x11 or something like that > > That is true. On the other hand, this code has mostly been laying around > without major changes and without being an annoyance, and it is pretty > possible that the new code will just supersedes it and keep the good > situation intact. > > I suggest we can decide what to do about alternate implementation if and > when the need arises, be it because an user has troubles that are fixed by > the Xlib implementation or because someone wants to develop or implement > tests.
previously we tested x11 build before pushing changes. If people are against supporting build of both at the same time then one of the 2 will not be tested to build before code gets pushed by most developers. IMO thats a a bad choice and not something we should wait for to bite us before we look into fixing it -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. -- Epicurus
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