On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Emil Velikov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>

A lot of extensions don't require explicit loader support.  I don't want to
have to update my loader (or put it in some folder and point pkg-config at
it) just to hack on them.
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