[Mesa-dev] [Mesa3d-dev] Separate demos repository

[José Fonseca]

Ping.

Could someone with administrative rights on fdo please make an empty 
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos repos, so that we can push this
branch into it?

Jose

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 15:08 -0700, José Fonseca wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> Apart of a minor details, I think we all agreed on general idea of
> splinting the demos.
> 
> Could we have this repo in git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos,
> with or without the full history, so that we can all collaborate on
> this?
> 
> In particular I'd like to get the demos building for windows again.
> 
> Jose
> 
> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 15:11 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > People that hang out on IRC have probably heard about my build system
> > work.  One of the first steps I've been working on finishing is
> > splitting out the demos repository.  We're currently distributing the
> > Mesa progs/ separately from the main Mesa distribution, and most people
> > aren't installing it, so from a distribution perspective it doesn't make
> > sense to be in the same repository.  On the other hand, for driver
> > developers that are having to make clean on a regular basis, wiping out
> > the programs (if you even use them) doesn't help since the programs
> > aren't really changing.  And if they are, when you're bisecting around
> > trying an app, you don't want the app changing at the same time.
> > 
> > So, I've made a branch in my Mesa repository for a split of the progs/
> > From Mesa.
> > 
> > git://people.freedesktop.org/~anholt/mesa on the mesa-demos branch
> > 
> > Open issues:
> > 
> > Right now they don't install in general, but it would be easy to change
> > if people are interested in a package that does.  I've tested a bunch of
> > them in tree and they seem fine.
> > 
> > I've only tested the build on Linux with GL.  The GLES stuff needs to
> > get hooked up (I don't see a GLES implementation to test against or I
> > would have).
> > 
> > I don't know what to do about the progs/gallium.  progs/gallium/unit
> > looks like it should probably live in the Mesa tree next to the code
> > that it's unit testing.  progs/gallium/python/ though?
> > 
> > None of the GLEW or GLUT is brought along with the apps.  It looks to me
> > like all OSes should have libGLEW and libfreeglut reasonably available.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if we want the repository to contain all of previous Mesa
> > history.  Right now that history costs 145MB on disk for a deep
> > checkout.  If that's a problem for people, we could use the same tool
> > that xcb did whose name I forget to to construct a history of just
> > progs/
> > 
> > Where to go from here:
> > 
> > If there isn't violent objection to this, I want to get this into place
> > in /git/mesa/demos in a couple of weeks, and then remove those
> > components from the main Mesa repository, plus the things that are only
> > in there because progs depend on them (GLUT, GLEW).
> 
> 
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