4 Maintainer: XCB Developers <xcb@lists.freedesktop.org>
5 Uploaders: Jamey Sharp <sharpone@debian.org>, Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
6 Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libxml2-utils
7 Standards-Version: 3.6.1
8 Bugs: mailto:xcb@lists.freedesktop.org
12 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
13 Pre-Depends: x11-common (>= 1:1.09)
14 Description: X C Binding - protocol descriptions
15 xcb-proto contains descriptions of the X Window System core protocol and
16 selected extensions in an XML-based data format. The X C Binding (XCB)
17 library uses these descriptions to generate much of its code. You only need
18 this package if you want to compile XCB or otherwise make use of these
19 protocol descriptions.
21 The XCB library provides an interface to the X Window System protocol,
22 designed to replace the Xlib interface. XCB provides several advantages over
25 * Size: small library and lower memory footprint
26 * Latency hiding: batch several requests and wait for the replies later
27 * Direct protocol access: one-to-one mapping between interface and protocol
28 * Thread support: access XCB from multiple threads, with no explicit locking
29 * Easy creation of new extensions: automatically generates interface from
30 machine-parsable protocol descriptions
32 Homepage: http://xcb.freedesktop.org