[Mesa-dev] Release of GLw?

[Brian Paul]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012 20:36:52 +0200, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 2012-05-17 17:17 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> > On 2012-05-17 15:58 +0200, Brian Paul wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 05/17/2012 04:42 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> Commit 63720114b42 in mesa removed the GLw source which is now provided
>> >>> in a separate source tree.  However, no release has been made from that
>> >>> tree yet, so users of Mesa 8.0+ have to resort to the git tree to obtain
>> >>> GLw.  I don't personally care about GLw, but in Debian there are still a
>> >>> few packages that use it¹.
>> >>>
>> >>> How about making a GLw release, say with a version of 8.0?
>> >>
>> >> The Mesa version number isn't really applicable to GLw.
>> >
>> > This may be so, but starting with 8.0 would make it easier for distros
>> > who have already provided 7.x.y packages from the Mesa source.
>>
>> At least that was the rationale why demos started at 8.0.0 in the first
>> release after they were moved to their own repository.
>>
>> For Debian it would be a minor inconvenience to re-start with version
>> 1.0, don't know about other distros.
>
> Yeah, revving versions of split out packages back to 1.0 is a minor pain
> for every distro, and is good to avoid.

I'm fine with bumping the version to 8.0.0.  But I took a quick look
at configure.ac and I have no idea how do implement it.  configure
seems to wind up using 1.0.0 by default.  Patches, anyone?

-Brian