[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] build: Disable building of d3d1x

Christoph Bumiller e0425955 at student.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Sep 7 08:37:48 PDT 2012


On 07.09.2012 17:17, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Christoph Bumiller
> <e0425955 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> On 07.09.2012 12:30, Jose Fonseca wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Jose Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Matt,
>>>>>
>>>>> I see you went ahead and just disabled it. Please remove it all
>>>>> together.
>>>>>
>>>>> Touching code that is not built nor tested ends just silently
>>>>> introduces bugs, so keeping this around won't help bring it back
>>>>> one day in any way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jose
>>>>
>>>> I talked with both Marek and Christoph, and they both said they'd
>>>> prefer to simply disable the build. I don't feel strongly, but if
>>>> someone is to revive it it'd be nice if we didn't make the git
>>>> history
>>>> harder to follow.
>>>
>>> I suppose they have their arguments, and I hope they include making this build again shortly.  What I don't understand is why these talks didn't happen within this email thread. I'd expect at least a heads up email before committing this...
>>>
>>
>> Actually I didn't express any preference. I can't say when or even if
>> I'll work on d3d1x again, and I don't care about making it build in the
>> meantime, since it isn't useful for anyone without further improvements.
>>
>> (Like working translation of SM4 to TGSI; my passing SM4 to the driver
>> directly works much better right now, but is too "evil" to push upstream).
> 
> Oh, that's not how it seemed on IRC.
> 
> [13:11] <    mattst88> | calim, mareko: what do you think about
> disabling the d3d1x build vs just removing d3d1x?
> 

Ah, I have to apologize there, maybe I didn't read the "vs" part ... I,
too, just didn't want to see any more reports about build failures.
Though I'm still hoping someone might pick up development.

> [13:28] <      calim> | mattst88: yeah disable it, I don't have time
> to work on it and therefore I don't have the nerve to care about
> whether it builds or not
> 



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