[Mesa-dev] RFC: Prune stale components

[Jose Fonseca]

As we're gaining momentum cleanup Mesa code, I think it would help if we 
also removed some stale components.

What do people feel about removing:

- src/mesa/drivers/windows/gdi -- the old SW rasterizer for Windows -- I 
haven't used in a very long time, and given that the old SW rasterizer 
is so far behind compared gallium based softpipe/llvmpipe rasterizers, 
it's hard to imagine this will ever be useful again

- src/gallium/drivers/rbug: -- do people use it? does it work?  it 
predates apitrace GL + GUI, which sort of enables a lot of the same 
things, but without the issue of having to hit moving target, which is 
what gallium interfaces are

- src/gallium/state_trackers/vega/,src/mapi/vgapi/ -- OpenVG API seems 
to have dwindled away. I recall Zack himself saying that much. The code 
would still be interesting if we wanted to implement NV_path_rendering 
[1], but given the trend of the next gen graphics APIs, it seems 
unlikely that this becomes ARB or core.

- src/gallium/state_trackers/egl/ -- yeah, I know I was against it, but 
since then I discovered WGL/GLX_EXT_create_context_es_profile, and the 
odds of us (VMware) needing this again are dimmer than last time, so I 
have to admit it does seem unlikely we or anybody will need it again, 
and we can always revert it from history..


Anything else?


Jose


[1] http://zrusin.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/nv-path-rendering.html