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Re: 4.3.0-0pre1v1 [XSF, please read]



On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 20:11, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:47:05PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > Why isn't Mesa 5's libGL built as well?
> > 
> > *sigh* How many times will we have to walk this through yet?
> > 
> > The libGLs provided by Mesa and XFree86 aren't the same. In particular,
> > the former can't use direct rendering, while the latter can't use plain
> > X11 rendering.
> > 
> > The libGLUs OTOH are both taken from the SGI sample implementation. _If_
> > there are any significant changes to libGLU, they will much more likely
> > appear in Mesa first. Maintaining xlibmesa-glu as well is a waste of
> > effort.
> 
> Why are you so gung-ho about killing libGLU?  

In order to stop the duplication of effort.

> What about libGLw?

I think the same reasoning applies to it, thanks for pointing that out.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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