VMware drivers maintainers

[Thomas Hellstrom]

On 08/18/2010 03:00 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:09 +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>> It appears that the vmwarectrl program has its own configure.ac 
>> script, so it won't be compiled unless explicitly configured and 
>> build in that directory.
>>
> Correct. It's the only package out of the 240 in xorg that has this 
> arrangement.
> The configuration is also totally out-date.
>> I'll have a check with some inhouse people to see whether we want to 
>> change that so that it builds by default.
>>
> It would be good to know what is the expected use of this program.
> An end user program that system builders should include in their OS?
> A developer only tool for unit testing?
>
> Whatever it may be, I can propose some better alternatives. 

After asking around, I was told It's a test program for the vmwarectrl 
protocol extension / functionality. People thinks it's ok to build it, 
but not install it by default.

A good solution would perhaps be to have a configure option 
--enable-vmwarectrl-client that triggers a build of this component.

Please let me know whether you want to do that. Otherwise I can take 
care of it during the upcoming week.

Thanks
Thomas



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