https://github.com/stapelberg/xcb-proto

fork of http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xcb/proto/ for documentation
https://github.com/stapelberg/xcb-proto

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fork of http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xcb/proto/ for documentation

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/stapelberg/xcb-proto
• Owner: stapelberg
• License: other
• Created: 2011-11-27T10:32:50.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-01-11T18:34:28.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T20:07:08.762Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 690 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: COPYING

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About xcb-proto

===============

xcb-proto provides the XML-XCB protocol descriptions that libxcb uses to

generate the majority of its code and API. We provide them separately

from libxcb to allow reuse by other projects, such as additional

language bindings, protocol dissectors, or documentation generators.

This separation between the XCB transport layer and the

automatically-generated protocol layer also makes it far easier to write

new extensions. With the Xlib infrastructure, client-side support for

new extensions requires significant duplication of effort. With XCB and

the XML-XCB protocol descriptions, client-side support for a new

extension requires only an XML description of the extension, and not a

single line of code.

Python libraries: xcb-proto also contains language-independent Python

libraries that are used to parse an XML description and create objects

used by Python code generators in individual language bindings.  These

libraries are installed into $(prefix)/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages.  If

this location is not on your system's Python path, scripts that import

them will fail with import errors.  In this case you must add the

install location to your Python path by creating a file with a `.pth'

extension in a directory that _is_ on the Python path, and put the

path to the install location in that file.  For example, on my system

there is a file named 'local.pth' in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages,

which contains '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages'.  Note that 

this is only necessary on machines where XCB is being built. 

Please report any issues you find to the freedesktop.org bug tracker,

at:

	

Discussion about XCB occurs on the XCB mailing list:

        

        

You can obtain the latest development versions of XCB using GIT.

For anonymous checkouts, use:

        git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xcb/proto

For developers, use:

        git clone git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xcb/proto