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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Status of xgl?
From:       Ori Bernstein <rand_chars () rogers ! com>
Date:       2006-09-27 22:09:06
Message-ID: 20060927170906.705ddcb4.rand_chars () rogers ! com
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:58:46 +0200, "Hanno Böck" <ml@hboeck.de> said:


> Beside that, is there a reason why xorg-server is still one package? After the 
> splitting, it would seem to be obvious to me to have an xorg-server, 
> kdriver-server, xgl-server package etc. That would make merging obsolete and 
> xgl could have it's own releases. But it'd probably need some more splitting 
> to move out the redundant parts.

Well, the reason is that there's a large amount of shared code (the DIX) that
gets hooked rather deeply into the various X servers. I suppose that the DIX
could be factored out into a shared library (libxorgdix.so or such) but nobody
really did it, and it doesn't seem to be especially high on the priority list
of anyone working on Xorg.

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