From: Mike M. <che...@ya...> - 2004-06-15 04:37:32
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Yes, is this not the esiest way to extend the protocol, by adding a new field to a string value? --- Eric Anholt <et...@lc...> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:34, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > Ohh, is it realy that hard of a feature to add?? > > > > foo:bar > > > > Old systems try to open "<path>/foo:bar_dri.so" and maby thay will > fail or > > there will be a symlink there. A simpl parser could be added, making > a > > new system pars for the ':' and try each one. > > That solution sounds worse than the problem -- break all new DDX vs old > libGL for the sake of one (questionable, IMO) DDX's requirement that > could be handled easier with a symlink. > > The thing to do, if this feature were really desired, would be to extend > the XF86DRI protocol. > > -- > Eric Anholt et...@lc... > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer > Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA > REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ |