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

[Dave Airlie]

On 16 December 2014 at 07:57, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Can we get a stable 1.5.0 release tarball somewhere?

Using github for tarballs isn't useful for distros since they move
stuff around every month or so.

Dave.