Mesa, DRI framework questions..

[Brian Paul]

Chuck Robey wrote:
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> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> wrote:
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>>> Mohan Parthasarathy wrote:
>>>> Ah! I took the Mesa tree from mesa3d.org <http://mesa3d.org>. It looks
>>>> like i should be taking it from anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
>>>> <http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa>
>>>> (it is mentioned in the Modulardevelopersguide). So, i don't have to go
>>>> to mesa3d.org <http://mesa3d.org> if i am working with the latest xserver ?
>>> To build the latest tree, IF you don't disable GL, then you haven't got a
>>> choice.  The mesa that comes from mesa3d.org is version 7.0.3, but our xorg
>>> sources seem to want version 7.1.0, which is only available from our
>>> freedesktop.org git archive.  So, it's either disable the user, or use the one
>>> from the git archive, because the only one that is tarred up is too old (even
>>> though it's the very latest stable release).
>> There are 7.1 rc releases available:
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>> http://www.mesa3d.org/beta/
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> Being as I know that I have a problem sometimes recognizing tags in a
> compllicated page, I spent more than 5 minutes poring over
> http://www.mesa3d.org/ (without the "beta/" that you added) but I was unable to
> find a single reference to that beta.   Where was that, or did you have some
> info from working in that project?  I mean, I tried really hard, even googling,
> and found nothing ... I even considered complaining on this list about requiring
> the git archive version without referring to it, but decided in the end that
> that would have been unreasonable.

I announce beta releases on the mesa mailing list(s).  I figure everyone 
that cares is on the dev list at least.  I'll add a link to the beta 
directory...

-Brian