[vtkusers] Mangled Mesa Unsupported?

[David E DeMarle]

My vote is yes.

My understanding is that mangled mesa has not been supported or used
in a long while and I agree that dead code should be removed.

Please re-ask on the vtk-developers list to get more traction going.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Kevin H. Hobbs <hobbsk at ohiou.edu> wrote:
> It appears that mangled mesa is no longer supported by VTK.
>
> Should the VTK_USE_MANGLED_MESA CMake variable be removed?
>
> Should the Rendering/vtkMesa* classes be removed?
>
> It seems like each vtkMesaXXX.cxx file does :
>
> #include "vtkOpenGLXXX.h"
> #include "vtkMesaXXX.h"
>
> #define vtkOpenGLXXX vtkMesaXXX
> #include "vtkOpenGLXXX.cxx"
> #undef vtkOpenGLXXX
>
> but vtkOpenGLXXX.h and vtkMesaXXX.h differ so much that vtkOpenGLXXX.cxx
> cannot be compiled.
>
> Would patches that make vtkMesaXXX.h more like vtkOpenGLXXX.h be considered?
>
>
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