-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/18/2011 04:48 PM, tom fogal wrote: > Hey all, > > We recently became more aware of a dependency on python's libxml2 for > building Mesa. We're not as proactive as we should be, but tend to > upgrade Mesa every few releases; I think this was a jump from 7.8 to 7.10. > > Anyway, libxml2 is a bit arduous for us because it's not installed by > default on Linux or Mac. On Linux, it's easy to grab via a package > manager, but still does not exist by default on some distros. In > general, non-standard dependencies are difficult because they make our > (already very large) software stack more complex. > > Is the package truly needed? I think it's used to parse spec files and > autogenerate trampolines or callbacks or something like that. Didn't we > used to have plain text files for that? Any reason we can't go back to > something simpler? Does code speak loud than words, here? :)
We haven't used plain-text for years. What has changed is that the generated files are no longer tracked in source control. They are generated at compile time because anything else is just nuts. :) I know that Kristian and Chia-I were working on this code most recently. Perhaps they will have additional insight. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2s01QACgkQX1gOwKyEAw9+iACcDBq2TL3LUDKd+cr5SZ7DbZlA gdgAnjJFAzBctWyyBuo0pEPEl3A9z0+z =qFT8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
