On 24 January 2017 at 18:02, Jason Ekstrand <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Matt Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Emil Velikov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On 24 January 2017 at 00:54, Matt Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> These files belong to the vulkan loader. >> > Fully agreed, patch is >> > Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <[email protected]> >> >> Thanks! >> >> > Related question: >> > I was wondering about getting this a step further: >> > - having the loader provide a .pc file >> > - tracking required version at configure time and dropping our local >> > copies of the headers/xml. >> > >> > Would you be in favour, against, neutral of such an approach ? >> >> I'd be in favor of that, but let's see what Jason thinks. > > > I'd rather not. That would make sense if we all lived in the open-source > world where everything is upstream all the time. Unfortunately, not all of > us have that luxury and we need to be able to work on experimental branches > of the spec that may have more extensions than are provided by any loader > version we can install. I'd be ok with a check for a particular loader > version just to force distros to update their loader but I would like to be > able to build with arbitrary XML branches without having to install a branch > of the loader. What if I tell you that you wouldn't need to install the loader ;-) More as we get a .pc patches in.
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