Comment 11 for bug 251443

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:15:18PM -0700, <email address hidden> wrote:
> --- Comment #10 from Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> 2008-06-17 14:15:17 PST ---
> Sergey/Daniel, could you please provide pointers to a todo list or
> discussion/plan of what needs to be done to move this and/or #15540 forward,
> esp. things other folks could do to help contribute to a solution?

The main thing to be done in rewriting xkbcomp is to rewrite xkbcomp.

> Also, are there any potential hacks/workarounds that we could investigate as
> temporary workarounds at the distro level? (E.g. such as appending another
> CARD32 flags variable at the end of the data file.)

At the expense of breaking every statically-linked application, everything
run from within a chroot, everything run remotely, and everything else
that just conforms to the spec, you could bump flags from CARD8 to
CARD16, yes.