On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:41 +0100, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 11:04 -0700, Brian Paul wrote: > >> Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > > > >>> Includes updates of the DRI drivers and GLX code ? > >> I don't recall any DRI/GLX check-ins to the 6.4 branch. It's up to > >> the DRI developers to check in bug fixes to the stable branch, but > >> that doesn't happen too often, unfortunately. > > > > Hi, Brian > > I had thinking, thinking and came up this idea. > > You may make some releases of stable branch with updates of DRI Drives. > > In times to times, because Mesa is very mature and DRI drives aren't. > > Like putting the Development of DRI drives in Stable branch. > > And in official page of building DRI, ask to use stable branch of Mesa. > > > > With this formula we can update Xorg CVS with DRI drives more often, and > > most important, we can put users testing code more similar. > > You can't just copy the dri directory from cvs head to the stable > branch, if you're suggesting something like that, this usually won't > compile (as internal functions/structs etc. change).
> FWIW, I usually do update the stable branch (if I don't forget it...), > but only for bugfixes, you won't see new features / optimizations or > similar from me in the stable branch (unless I'd be asked to commit it > there or I'd think this really warrants an exception). So 6.4 branch got > that no-tcl blender fix (it's newer than the 6.4.2 release though), but > it doesn't contain things like r100 cube maps. > To test last features of DRI drives, you should need lastest drives of X tree, but to test latest Mesa3D it self you don't need it latest X. Before the development of DRI has move to Mesa tree, the development was made using always the same Mesa3D code. Therefore I think DRI developers should update Mesa stable branch, not just with bug fix , but also with new features / optimizations. At same time that update driver on Xorg tree. If this is made, DRI Building should be done with Mesa stable branch and more quickly dri code enter in Xorg tree, where could be test without snapshots, therefore the Distros could put the code out faster and can be tested for a much bigger number of people. This is my ideia . > Roland > -- Sérgio M.B.
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