[Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

Robin Burchell robin+qt at viroteck.net
Sun Mar 18 02:03:50 CET 2012


On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:43 AM,  <Craig.Scott at csiro.au> wrote:
> I asked about xcb on the LSB mailing list and early responses suggest that although xcb has been mentioned there before, it doesn't sound like it's progressed much beyond that. Dropping support for xlib and relying on xcb would thus make Qt5 a non-starter for some people.

then the LSB had better start taking a closer look, given that xcb is
a build-dependency for xlib, as of 2010
(http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=15e5eaf62)



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