On 15 Apr 2008, at 15:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Dear Jack,
>
> I do not want to have a full mesa package. We can still make mesa- 
> libglw a split off of mesa, if you want to; and keep mesa-libglw  
> linking to the system GL (providing hardware acceleration).
>
> I just proposed additional changes to the naming conventions and  
> possibly having also a full mesa package just to go with my  
> proposed changes to the naming conventions, i.e.,
>       1. why call it mesa-libglw while linking to system GL? Shall we  
> call it libglw* instead?
>       2. Can we also have a mesa-libglw linking to mesa GL, just for the  
> sake of completion and be consistent in the naming as I proposed  
> earlier.
>
> Hope I have made it clear. Please let me know what you want to do  
> with mesa and mesa-libglw, even if it is just carrying like it is now.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Best regards,
> Murali.


Those seems reasonable questions, and put very nicely.
The reply came in the form of the following msg to fink-devel..

On 15 Apr 2008, at 15:51, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    Murali has asked me to help create a mesa
> package with libglw splitoff that builds against
> the system libGL. I am puzzled as to why we really
> want to have a complete mesa package in fink.
> Such a package will obviously use software
> rendering and thus be an order of magnitude
> slower than the system libGL which uses
> direct rendering.
>     I have asked the X.org developers and they
> do intend to port the X.org X11 Leopard packages
> to build using Mesa 7 at some point (with
> modifications to properly use direct rendering).
> It would seem better to wait for that (as a
> replacement of the MacOS X X11) than to
> downgrade the performance of OpenGL with
> software rendering.
>               Jack

This seems to misunderstand the original request
of a bit of coordination between the maintainers of
those 2 pkgs (which have the same source).

Besides, we can't wait _ we have a mesa pkg, and there are pkgs
needing and using it now; further it provides libs (like libOSMesa)
that xorg doesn't. And there is no reason to downgrade performance
_ any pkg uses the libs it wants (or needs..)

I am sure you both can coordinate those pkgs via private e-mail..

JF Mertens


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