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On 2009-04-07, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> Is there anything that would break if we remove this symlink? And does |
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> it make sense to have both mesa and apple-opengl installed? I thought |
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> mesa provides an opengl implementation? I'm not to familiar with this |
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> stuff, so please tell me if I'm wrong. |
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Hi Grobian, |
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well, to be honest, I'm not deep into this either. "osmesa.h" declares |
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functions in /usr/X11R6/lib/libOSMesa.dylib, which is not currently |
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included in apple-opengl, so it wouldn't really change something if we |
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omitted it. Both header and library are not part of the OpenGL standard |
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and but provide additional functionality (offscreen rendering). |
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Mesa is an OpenGL implementation doing rendering in software or through |
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DRI, which is Linux specific. It's most useful on platforms that don't |
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come with a native OpenGL implementation. On other platforms it's likley |
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only useful for developers. |
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However, since the ebuild is already in prefix and I was currently in |
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the need of having Mesa on my box, I have now an ebuild with Darwin |
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compatiblity modifications and would happily contribute it. ;) |
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Br, |
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Dirk. |