Re: [Mesa3d-dev] A new face on the dev list

[Brian P. <br...@pr...>]

Joris Timmermans wrote:
> 
> Though it seems kindof intimidating now that I'm in here,
> I'd like to contribute to the Mesa3D project.  I downloaded the source
> a few days ago, while working on my PhD thesis, because I was looking
> for an open-source, well-documented graphics API to extend.
> Mesa seemed the perfect solution, since it builds fine on my
> Windows NT system.
> 
> The only problem is - it's not so easy to figure out where to add things
> that I need.  I've added the "#define"s that are necessary, and some
> additional glSomethingEXT functions.  I've located the rasterizer code,
> and played with it a little to learn more.
> However, the old developer document on the website is out of date
> ( it mentions draw.c for instance, no longer in the source tree ),
> so it's very hard to figure out the sequence of calls that occurs after
> a set of calls between glBegin(), glEnd().  I need to break into these
> calls, because my extension requires a lot of work to be done after
> the initial modeling transformation.
> 
> Is this still possible?
> Have I missed any important documentation perhaps? ( I've checked the
> readme.* files in the source tree ).

The code changes faster than the documentation.

The T&L code is pretty complicated because of all the optimizations.
Even I don't understand/know it very well.  Keith Whitwell's the person
to ask about it but he's been busy with hardware driver work.

You can ask your questions here, of course.

-Brian