[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 33/33] intel: add aubinator ui

[Lionel Landwerlin]

On 01/11/17 20:30, Dylan Baker wrote:
> Quoting Scott D Phillips (2017-11-01 10:30:09)
>> Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin at intel.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 31/10/17 21:11, Scott D Phillips wrote:
>>>>> +}
>>>> [snip imgui]
>>>>
>>>> imgui seems to be the first instance of someone pasting a sizeable third
>>>> party library into the repo.  I'm not sure how everyone feels about
>>>> that. Unfortunately it seems like imgui isn't packaged by any distros
>>>> that I can see either.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we could do some meson wrap magic or something to pull it in
>>>> without having to commit the code.
>>>>
>>> Copying seems to be the main way anybody is using it. Are you suggesting
>>> a submodule?
>> Right, something like making a 'wrap' for imgui that can go download and
>> build the source:
>>
>> http://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html
>>
>> Really no idea if this is a great or terrible idea though. Dylan might
>> have a better idea.
>>
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> I'm really not thrilled with the idea of pulling such a large fast moving
> project into the tree either, though there is president, we have gtest in tree
> already.
>
> A wrap might be a good way to build it it, especially for an optional tool that
> distros aren't expected to package. I wonder if upstream would take a meson build
> specifically for this purpose? Would you like me to follow up with them and see
> if that would be an option (meson feels [rightly] that it's preferable to try to
> get a meson build into the upstream project before adding it to wrapdb)?
>
> Dylan

I'll ask but it seems the ImGui project is really not meant to be 
packaged like most software we find in Linux distros.
There are a few glue example to work on various versions window systems 
and OpenGL/Vulkan, but these are just meant as examples.
It's expected whoever uses it will embedded it in its project and tweak 
the few things it needs (either event plumbing or adding new 
colors-scheme/widgets).

In our case, I wrote the Gtk3 backend, I'm pretty sure there is little 
interest in having it upstream.

-
Lionel