On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2011 08:29:51 Ben Cooksley wrote: >> Next KWin. It currently depends upon Mesa 7.10. I have a local revert >> in a private local branch which reverts the dependency check code >> within KWin to continue to allow me to use compositing. Even though I >> have Mesa 7.8, I rarely experience KWin crashes - it has only crashed >> once in the past 2 months. I use an Intel Ironlake based graphics. >> This patch of mine works perfectly and does not cause any issues. > KWin does *not* depend on Mesa 7.10! KWin does not have any build > dependencies on Mesa. > There is an optional build dependency on OpenGL and XComposite/XDamage. This > all is optional! > If you use Mesa drivers there is a runtime requirement for at least Mesa > 7.10, whose reasons > have been explained to you on plasma-devel. > > Given what you demand this is out of scope as it is not a build dependency. > It is just that you > don't get the latest features when not having the correct runtime dependency. > I might add that > using different drivers (NVIDIA or ATI blob as well as GLES/EGL Mesa drivers) > do not have this > runtime requirement. It is also still possible to use KWin with XRender or > without compositing at > all. Btw. patches to have an environment variable to overwrite all checks are > welcome. > > Please also note that I will add a runtime requirement to Mesa 7.11 as I have > here on my system > the start of the Wayland port which will be in 4.8 and requires Mesa 7.11.
Now that is absolutely overboard. OpenSUSE 11.4 isn't even 3 months old. And has Mesa 7.10. You are effectively classifying a distribution as unsuitable for trunk development. You are now depending on components which aren't even in released distributions! (Note that having to live with a desktop without compositing isn't exactly what I would call usable for the long run) > > Cheers > Martin Regards, Ben
