[forum] Notes from a teleconference held 2003-3-27

[Michel Dänzer]

On Don, 2003-04-03 at 22:03, Alan Cox wrote: 
> >  From the DRI people's point of view, it leads to more work as we'd want our 
> > drivers to work with both trees -- but that's pretty much life, and we'll have 
> > to do what we can to minimize the effects on us.
> 
> Perhaps a test of Keith's theory is that DRI should be able to be -part-
> of not just working with his tree.

I think we should first discuss (more) the pros and cons of folding the
DRI tree into other trees. I do find the potential benefits (for merges
in particular) compelling, but there's e.g. the danger of making it harder
to get it integrated with other components like e.g. DirectFB or other 
OpenGL implementations.


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