On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:59 AM Olivier Fourdan <ofour...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Currently. the Xorg Xserver has its own implementation of the VESA CVT > standard timing modelines generator in `hw/xfree86/modes/xf86cvt.c`. > > That code is placed in its own source file alone because it is also being > used by the `cvt` utility. > > Because it's part of the Xorg DDX, Xwayland, which is another DDX also has a > copy of the same code in `hw/xwayland/xwayland-cvt.c`. > > Now with Xwayland being a standalone package, mutter which uses the cvt > utility at build time still needs to install `cvt` from Xorg to generate the > modes used in Wayland. > > Some time ago, discussing with Jonas Adahl on irc, we thought it would be a > good idea to have that code and utility part of its own standalone project, > to avoid the code duplication and possibly ease contributions. > > That was https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1142 > > So I went ahead and did just that, called it “libxcvt” and placed in > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ofourdan/libxcvt > > I also made a merge request to use that code in the Xserver: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/637 > > Can we consider moving “libxcvt” to the xorg/lib namespace in gitlab?
This is great and will help in packaging mutter and Wayland-only systems. Can we please move this to the xorg/lib namespace and tag a release? (Cc'ing daniels for the namespace move) Thanks! _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
