[Mesa-dev] RFC: Drop glew from mesa

[Dan Nicholson]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:07 AM, José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 07:36 -0700, Brian Paul wrote:
>> Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Since we don't have any progs in mesa that uses glew anymore is it
>> >> okay if we drop it? I have attached a patch which drops it its a bit
>> >> big so I packed it. And here is the change thingy:
>> >>
>> >>  configs/beos           |    2 +-
>> >>  configs/darwin         |    2 +-
>> >>  configs/default        |    4 +-
>> >>  configs/freebsd-dri    |    2 +-
>> >>  configs/linux-cell     |    2 +-
>> >>  configs/linux-dri-xcb  |    2 +-
>> >>  configs/linux-indirect |    2 +-
>> >>  configure.ac           |    2 +-
>> >>  include/GL/glew.h      |14435 ------------------------------------------------
>> >>  include/GL/glxew.h     | 1476 -----
>> >>  include/GL/wglew.h     | 1247 -----
>> >>  src/SConscript         |    1 -
>> >>  src/glew/LICENSE.txt   |   73 -
>> >>  src/glew/Makefile      |   54 -
>> >>  src/glew/SConscript    |   69 -
>> >>  src/glew/glew.c        |14320 -----------------------------------------------
>> >>  src/glew/glewinfo.c    | 8441 ----------------------------
>> >>  src/glew/visualinfo.c  | 1173 ----
>> >>  18 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 41299 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > This got stuck in the moderation queue, resending without the patch.
>>
>> Looks good.
>>
>> But it would be handy to have glew in the mesa-demos tree so that we
>> don't all have find/install the latest version.
>
> Yes.
>
> And glut, could we move glut to demos too? It would make building on
> windows easy again.

glut might be something that deserves its own repo since some people
use Kilgard's glut as their system glut. Requiring them to get that
from a demos package seems a little odd. But splitting it out of the
main mesa package seems nice, if not just for licensing reasons.

--
Dan