Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Will Newton wrote:
>
>>> Unfortunately, until 4.x supports all the hardware, or at least
>>> the hardware that we consider important, we need to ship 3.3.6
>>> servers in addition to 4.x, and that has some really crummy side
>>> effects, like having to ship separate Mesa and other hacks so
>>> that everyone can do 3D. I would like nothing more than to get
>>> rid of XFree86 3.3.6 from the distribution, and also the separate
>>> Mesa package.
>>
>> Maybe this is a silly question, but couldn't it be setup so XFree86 >= 4.0
>> conflicts with Mesa, and Xfree86 < 4.0 requires it? That way surely you
>> could make standalone Mesa for those who have old XFree and no DRI? Or is
>> there a sane configuration that mixes XFree 3.3.x and 4.x?
>
>
> Our current setup AFAIK is the only way to allow XFree86 4.x and
> 3.3.6 to coreside and both do software OpenGL, as well as
> allowing DRI to work where supported. We need users to be able
> to switch between 4.x and 3.3.6 without installing/uninstalling a
> bunch of stuff which means that this is necessary until 3.3.6 is
> no longer needed. Otherwise we must cripple our 3.3.6 support in
> order to use the Mesa that comes as part of XFree86.
>
>
Hrm, I know this has been brought up before, but why don't you just put
a GLX implementation into 3.3.6? I'm sure SGI's OpenGL SI or UtahGLX
could be used without much additional effort. They both should build
with 3.3.x just fine.
-Jeff
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