mesa and xserver question

[Brian Paul]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 12/6/06, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:07 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> >
>> > Kristian Høgsberg mentioned a while back about putting this into Mesa.
>> >
>> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-August/017787.html
>> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-March/013872.html
>> >
>> > There are some patches in that thread.
>>
>> There's also https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6355 .
> 
> 
> Is there anything technically wrong with either of those approaches?
> Is there any reason why mesa/xserver can't be adapted in that way? It
> would certainly be an improvement over the symlinked approach.

I haven't had time to look into this.  I'm pretty focused on shading 
language work.

Off-hand, I'm thinking that teasing things apart is going to be a bit 
tricky but feel free to go for it.

-Brian