-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 July 2004 16:41, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:29:27 -0700, Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm thinking maybe we don't want to use a branch. Here's the idea: We > > make the DevelDRIDrivers define in imake include all these new, > > insecure, not-guaranteeing-backwards-compatibility drivers, and they're > > only turned on when we add #define BuildDevelDRIDrivers YES. For the > > DDXs of those drivers, we add this to their Imakefile > > > > #if !BuildDevelDRIDrivers > > #undef BuildXF86DRI > > #endif > > > > Now, no more fighting with branches, merges both directions, etc. We > > get to keep saying "These drivers are insecure, we don't guarantee > > backwards compatibility," etc. because they're disabled. Our users are > > happy that they don't have to learn about checking out branches to get > > their drivers. And we can ensure that we continue covering compiling of > > both paths in trunk by using the tinderbox.
Brilliant! > Sounds good to me, however, does that mean there'll have to be lots of > #ifdefs in the code to protect the "experimental" sections from the > "stable" sections in the DDXs? I suppose that wouldn't be too bad. We need those anyway, to mask the DRI code off from non-DRI platforms. - - ajax -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/EIaW4otUKDs0NMRAnaIAJ9vvJCf7AmHYgzYOFqPA4QRaDO44ACeMWZW FGG0YM3vcyipfOXgz3hWQ8U= =ZbIZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
