Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Proposal to re-work GL dispatch

[Adam J. <aj...@nw...>]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 11:33, Ian Romanick wrote:
> Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > I think there's pressure building for various backwards-compatibility
> > breakages - it may make sense to try and do as much as possible all
> > together - not just libGL/client driver, but open things up to all
> > possibilities.
>
> Did you have anything specific in mind?  The only issue is time.
> Various freeze dates for 7.0 are rapidly approaching (or have past).
> Anything that's going to be done, needs to be done soon if it wants to
> get in.  I really only have two goals in this area for 7.0:
>
> 1. Get some form of this patch in.
>
> 2. Make '-DDRI_NEW_INTERFACE_ONLY' standard and remove all of the
> resulting dead code / structure elements.
>
> Anything beyond that would be icing on the cake for me.

It's a little softer here than elsewhere, in terms of when the freeze needs=
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happen.  Assuming we get a Mesa release done before 7.0, these changes just=
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need to happen in time to stabilize for that release.  I don't know what th=
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Mesa release schedule looks like just yet though.

=46or reference, the 7.0 schedule looks like:

Jul 4:    Feature freeze
Jul 15:   Release Candidate 0
Aug 19:   Release Candidate 1
Sep 9:    Release Candidate 2
Sep 23:   Final Release Candidate
Sep 30:   Release

I'm willing to do the first Mesa 6.3 import anywhere up to about July 30, a=
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potentially a stable branch import after that.  Obviously sooner is better,=
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but it's really Brian's call as to when the Mesa releases happen.

The only major change I want to see happen in Mesa before then is the abili=
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to build libGLcore from Mesa.  That's pretty much mandatory for 7.0, and I=
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have it pretty close to working.  The other fixes I want are little things=
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like 'install' targets for make.

I'd consider the second set of changes (new interface only) to be sufficien=
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low-impact that I'd take them later in the process, since they're basically=
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just dropping dead code.

=2D ajax