On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:41:45PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:38:59PM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > >>This is a good time to remind people/establish the principle that driver > >>bug fixes should be propogated to the mesa-6_0_branch of the Mesa > >>repository. Brian's always done a good job of making sure core mesa fixes > >>get copied over, but it shouldn't come down to him alone. > >> > >>In particular, the recent TCL lighting fixes for the radeon & r200 > >>drivers should get pushed down into Mesa 6.0. > > > > > >Do we want to bring Mesa 6.0's branch into the DRI repository now or > >stick with the way we have it currently ? > > > >I guess if we stick with the way it is now, then most developers will > >track Mesa's trunk and we may start to lag stable releases. > > I like the way we have it now, to be truthful. If we develop on a branch > or branches, we get little or no testing, and we really want testing. I actually agree with you on this Keith. It's just too much of a pain to keep merging back and forward.
> If someone wants a stable branch, they will be able to get one. It doesn't > take too much effort to ensure bugfixes make their way onto the stable > branch also. If someone has a bug with the stable branch, the information > that it is fixed on the trunk will help track it down. O.k. > What I'd really like to be able to do now is build the dri drivers directly > out of the Mesa tree. Definately. Slate that up for 6.1, I'll certainly work on that issue. Alan. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
