[Piglit] [PATCH 3/4] utils: add initial WAFFLE_WGL support

[Emil Velikov]

On 15/12/14 20:56, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
> <mailto:emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     This will allow us to use waffle with its upcoming WGL support for
>     Windows. With that done, the final step to removing glut is to convert
>     piglit to use waffle for MacOS.
> 
>     Current implementation does not have input handling/event loop, and as
>     such one needs to pass "-auto" when running individual tests, otherwise
>     the test will abort after being displayed for 8 seconds.
> 
>     Waffle 1.5.0 is the first version that has WGL support.
> 
> 
> Do we need anything from 1.5.0 besides WGL?  If not, can we only require
> 1.5.0 if we're on windows and continue only requiring 1.3.0 on linux?  I
> ask because I very much enjoy just using the fedora packages for waffle
> which are at 1.3 (fedora 21) and 1.4 (rawhide).
Either way I would highly encourage you to get away from 1.3.x and move
to 1.4.x or 1.5.x. Installing it in a custom prefix should work, yet
I've not tried it personally.

I'll be ok with dropping the version requirement but I'd rather do that
as Dylan's latest patch hits the ML/master.


-Emil

P.S. Is it me or does GMail adds some very odd formatting to the text
you quote ?