[ moved to libraries list ] Am Montag, 5. Februar 2007 00:15 schrieb Duncan Coutts:
[...] Perhaps these days binding xcb might be the way to go for low level X11 stuff.
I had a look and XCB, and it looks quite promising as a "better Xlib". What is not so clear to me is: * X.Org seems to use it as a basis for their Xlib implementation. Is this correct? * What about XFree86? * What about X11 implementations on *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.? * Is XCB 100% feature-complete compared to Xlib? I guess that XCB is not widespread enough yet to drop the X11 package now, but I'd like to hear what others think. OTOH, a Haskell binding for XCB can probably be generated automatically to a large degree via XSLT, if I understand things correctly, which would be a big plus. Cheers, S.