Re: [Mesa3d-dev] vtxfmt templates -- drop for 3.5?

[Brian P. <bri...@ya...>]

--- Gareth Hughes <gar...@ac...> wrote:
> Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
> > Brian, Gareth, Others,
> > 
> > I've been looking again at the vtxfmt stuff.  This code has a lot of work
> to
> > be done before it is finished, correct and stable.  It has even more work
> to
> > be done before it can compete with the standard tnl module, which is
> capable
> > of emitting strips, etc in hardware format.  
> > 
> > I'm torn to some extent between 
> > 	a) doing that work to completion based on what I've got (uncommitted) so
> far
> > 	b) committing what I've got and leaving a better but still incomplete
> > implementation in mesa (probably the worst option)
> > or
> > 	c) removing all those files, or perhaps putting them in an "unfinished" or
> > "development" area, and readding them later.
> > 
> > Acutally the worst option would be:
> > 	d) do nothing
> > 
> > None of the dri drivers have a working implemntation based on these files,
> and
> > the partial implementations that exist will probably require quite a bit of
> > rework to bring them up to scratch.  I share Brian's desire to get 4.0 out
> > asap, and I don't think these files are currently worth holding 4.0 up for.
> 
> 
> I'd be happy to see (c) happen -- I agree it's a worthwhile chunk of work and
> should be kept.

Agreed.

I'm going to start prepping the 4.0 release now (bumping version numbers, etc).
Maybe we can release this week.

-Brian


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