Proposal to change the x11 clipboard implementation
MarcusGrass opened this issue · 4 comments
Hi,
I've been working a bit with x11rb for interfacing with x11 without any c-library dependencies.
Currently x11-clipboard uses the xcb-crate which is rust bindings for libxcb. x11rb is like libxcb implemented in rust and avoids the c-library dependencies as well as unsoundness issues. I'm considering creating a fork of x11-clipboard which uses that implementation instead.
If I did, would you be okay with using that instead in this crate?
Depending on a new untested rewrite that will also go unmaintained in two weeks doesn't exactly sound like a great improvement. So far x11-clipboard in its latest version works relatively well at least, I'm sure upstream would also be happy to accept any patches that are net improvements.
I'm sorry that you believe that's the case.
I did have a look and the API could be the same except for some Errors and exposing the dependency crate, I originally thought that some structural changes would be necessary but it's almost exclusively plumbing, for this crate that change would be a single line change on a use statement so I'll see if I can PR it there!
APIs can change, there's a reason why breaking semver versions exist. I'm sure @quininer would appreciate any help with maintaining x11-clipboard.
APIs can change, there's a reason why breaking semver versions exist. I'm sure @quininer would appreciate any help with maintaining x11-clipboard.
Yeah, I'll have a look at actually implementing it this evening!