Depending on external libraries

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 18:17, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
> 
> > > In fact I would argue that Mesa and DRI should in fact be merged *into* the 
> > > core X server source code tree (as in CVS tree - it can still be built 
> > > modularly). 
> > 
> > IMHO quite the opposite should happen in the long run. The DRI
> > drivers should be released together with Mesa, and they and libGL
> > should be removed from the X tree. The main effect of them being in
> > the X tree has been that most people are running hopelessly
> > outdated, feature-lacking and buggy 3D drivers. 
> 
> That would be a nice utopian dream, but in reality the 3D driver modules 
> are always going to rely heavily on the 2D driver modules to work 
> correctly. Especially with the way that DRI is structured today, as there 
> is no defined ABI at all between the 2D and 3D pieces. 

That's simply not true. 3D drivers from ancient XFree86 releases still
work with the current 2D drivers, and although I haven't tried the other
way around myself, it should work just as well. Anything which prevents
that is a bug. Please stop spreading FUD.


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