[Mesa-dev] talloc (Was: Merge criteria for glsl2 branch)

[Dave Airlie]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:42 AM, José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:52 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
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>> José Fonseca wrote:
>> > Could then Aras Pranckevicius's talloc port to windows be merged into
>> > glsl2 branch before glsl2 is merged into master?
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>> I think we learned our lesson with GLEW.  Trying to keep a copy of an
>> external dependency in our tree only leads to sadness.  I have no
>> intention to repeat that mistake.
>
> Having the GLEW source was quite useful for windows. I guess the lesson
> would not be not ship source, but only build it if necessary. If talloc
> source is not needed for Linux then we can just build it when absent.
> You can even ignore it from automake.

Can't you guys setup a separate windows deps repo? that you gather all
the prereqs for building on Windows
in one place and recommend people check it out before mesa?

Really optimising for the wrong bunch of people here by dragging this
stuff into mesa git.

Dave.