Bug 93582 – XCB (Xlib replacement)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Bertrand Jacquin 2005-05-22 10:39:18 UTC]

Hi,

XCB is a replacement of Xlib which do things better than XCB. I will remplace
Xlib in X.org when it will be ready for mass product.
I wrote them for a personal use part of Enlightenment DR17, more precisely for evas.
These ebuilds are CVS one. Nothing difficult but they works well. I didn't made
ebuild for some xcb-demo but I could.

At this current stade of develpement, XCB have 2 to 3 fps less than Xlib. Just
link application to XCB insted of Xlib (if code of application could (evas
could)) and It will use XCB instead of Xlib

There is a lot of documentation about it on http://freedesktop.org/Software/xcb


Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Bertrand Jacquin 2005-05-22 10:39:54 UTC]

Created attachment 59559 [details]
x11-libs/xau/xau-9999.ebuild

[Comment 2 Bertrand Jacquin 2005-05-22 10:40:22 UTC]

Created attachment 59560 [details]
x11-libs/xcb/xcb-9999.ebuild

[Comment 3 Bertrand Jacquin 2005-05-22 10:40:40 UTC]

Created attachment 59561 [details]
x11-libs/xcb-proto/xcb-proto-9999.ebuild

[Comment 4 Bertrand Jacquin 2005-05-22 10:40:59 UTC]

Created attachment 59562 [details]
x11-libs/xcb-util/xcb-util-9999.ebuild

[Comment 5 Bertrand Jacquin 2005-05-22 10:41:16 UTC]

Created attachment 59563 [details]
x11-libs/xproto/xproto-9999.ebuild

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-05-22 19:52:58 UTC]

CVS ebuilds should properly have a name of <theirname>-cvs-version. Rather than
naming them 9999, you might be able to find a more real version number in
configure.ac (the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE argument perhaps?).

We aren't really interested in adding XCB until it's incorporated into Xorg. But
until then, people can use your ebuilds from this bug; and after then, we can
hopefully use them as a reference for anything needed in portage.

If you'd like to reopen this bug once XCB is available in Xorg, that would be great!

[Comment 7 Dirk-Jan Heijs 2006-04-30 04:31:30 UTC]

Good news. It seems that XCB has been released!

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-April/015073.html

[Comment 8 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-04-30 11:20:52 UTC]

Alright, let's think about adding ebuilds, then. Only one I'm not really sure how to deal with is libX11, since it hasn't yet seen a new release for the XCB stuff.

[Comment 9 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-05-12 14:43:29 UTC]

Alright, I've got ebuilds for everything for the 0.9 release in my overlay (http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/overlay/), as well as a live git libX11. Just waiting on a release of XCB-capable libX11 to add them to the tree.

[Comment 10 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-06-20 23:29:44 UTC]

Waiting for XCB-capable libX11.

[Comment 11 Jonas Berlin 2006-12-14 00:06:40 UTC]

libxcb-1.0, xcb-proto-1.0 and libX11-1.1.1 seem to be available in portage with ~* keywords.

[Comment 12 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-12-14 07:10:26 UTC]

Re-opening...

[Comment 13 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-12-14 07:10:44 UTC]

Ebuilds have been added to the tree.

[Comment 14 Jonas Berlin 2006-12-16 12:07:34 UTC]

Hi,

How about xcb-util? I don't know whether it's a central part of xcb or not, but it's distributed in the same location as the three other libs currently in portage (url below).. and some packages supporting xcb such as cairo need the xcb-util for xcb support to work (bug #158106).

http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/

Thanks,
  Jonas

[Comment 15 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-12-16 12:15:42 UTC]

(In reply to comment #14)
> Hi,
> 
> How about xcb-util? I don't know whether it's a central part of xcb or not, but

Ah, you're right, thanks for pointing that out.

[Comment 16 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-12-16 14:26:13 UTC]

xcb-util is added now.