Re: [Gnash-dev] OpenGL Rendering

[Quinn Storm]

On Tuesday 12 June 2007 22:38:14 strk wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:13:00AM -0400, Quinn Storm wrote:
> >     * automated testing can be done with osmesa or with an X server present
> > & the proposed method
>
> I'm not really comfortable with automated testing requiring
> an X server running, unless there's an easy way to run our own
> "minimal,testing" X server for this purpose.
>
> What are the drawbacks of using mesa apart from possibly getting
> successful results while testing and bogus results while running
> on certain hw drivers ?
>
> --strk;

That's the only drawback that I know of of using software rendering for 
testing, the setup should be near-identical, though we'd skip the accelerated 
TFP rendering since its all in software anyway