On Thu, 31 May 2001, Daryll Strauss wrote:
>> Glide is dead as a developmental library for 3D and is really
>> only useful as an in between for DRI.
>>
>> Would it make sense to make Glide3 a native part of XFree86? I
>> think it would simplify bug reporting and bug fixing, etc.
>>
>> Are there any licensing problems, or other reasons that preclude
>> this from occuring? We include it in our XFree86 package, but
>> I'd just as soon see it natively added to XFree86 and made part
>> of the Imake build system. It is unlikely to be used or
>> developed much outside of XFree86 anyway IMHO.
>>
>> Just curious if others are feeling this also, and to find out if
>> it is something that might happen or be feasible for the trunk
>> code or DRI project.
>
>It's a big ugly hairy mess that no one is supporting. How does moving it
>into XFree help?
I thought it would make it easier for everyone if it was
integrated. Sounds like that was a bad assumption. ;o)
>What needs to happen is that Glide and X need to be separated
>not integrated. There's an easy way to do it, and a better way.
>The easy way is to make the driver dynamically load Glide and
>make the X tree include only those header files it needs to
>compile the 3D driver. That's work we're already doing.
Yep, that is cool.
>The better answer would be to rewrite the tdfx 3D driver to
>send packets to the board directly without using Glide. That
>will simplify the whole setup, and may improve performance a
>tad. No one has stepped forward to volunteer to do that work,
>and we're not likely to do it.
Right, I guess if Glide were integrated there would be even less
likelyhood of the work getting done "the right way"(tm). All
good points Daryll, thanks.
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