Hi Chad, Thank you for your very detailed description about the project Idea. It Increases my Interest about this Idea.
First of all I thought the mentor is Jordan Justen (As the Idea page says). If he is not please tell me how should I get a mentor to this project. As it says I think I have to work with windows environment (I'm very much familiar with windows and most of my work done in windows environment) . So it wont be a bigger challenge to me. *So first of all I think I should have a mentor. Can you please help me with that.* And of course although you are not familiar with programming in a Windows environment. If you can guide me through this, to get a basic understanding about X.org and Waffle and WGL to enter to the project it will be very much helpful. Please give me some resources, reading materials , tutorials ... anything. By the way I don't know without a mentor it is useful or not. But I would like to give a try. Thanks and best regards, Vidudaya On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Chad Versace <chad.vers...@linux.intel.com>wrote: > Vidudaya, > > I have some comments on Jordan's list of subgoals. > > 1. Waffle's examples/gl_basic.c > > gl_basic is a little toy program that developers can use to test > Waffle when adding support for new platforms, such as WGL. If > you can get gl_basic to work on WGL, then that will prove that > Waffle (mostly) supports WGL. > > Even after gl_basic begins working for a new platform, there will > remain some bugs and unimplemented corner cases for that > platform. But, gl_basic is the right place to start when working > on WGL. > > 2. Waffle's src/utils/wflinfo.c > > wflinfo is a little tool that works like glxinfo. It prints > information about the system's GL implementation, such as the > system's OpenGL version and available extensions. It works for > OpenGL Core contexts, OpenGL Compatibility contexts, and OpenGL > ES contexts. > > 3. piglit test suite running tests on Windows using waffle > > This is the real reason why I want Waffle to support WGL. If > Waffle supported WGL, then Piglit could use a single > platform-abstraction layer for every window system and operating > system. Currently, Piglit uses GLUT as the platform-abstraction > layer for Windows and Mac; and uses Waffle for Linux and Android. > (Yes, some people have private forks of Piglit that run on > Android). > > 4. Package binary waffle for windows > > This is a nice-to-have. Today, there exist official Waffle packages > for > Gentoo, Chromium OS, and Linux. And Jordan is working on a Debian > package. And I have a MacPorts package that I intend to add to > the official MacPorts repository. > > If you accomplished the first two subgoals, then I would consider your > summer of code project a success. Then others could build on top of your > work to finish #3. If you also accomplish #3, then it would be an > astounding success. > > -Chad >
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