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• Introduction
• Original Author
• Contributors
• CVS Branches
• Anonymous CVS Access
• Mailing List
• Help Wanted
• Utilities

Original Author

Brian Paul

Email: brian_paul@mesa3d.org

I started writing Mesa in my spare time in August of 1993. I wrote the library because I thought it would be fun to do and expected other people could make use of it. Also, the library implements many basic 3-D computer graphics algorithms; beginners may find it instructional. I continue to work on Mesa because I enjoy it.

Many people have contributed to Mesa by adding new features, writing new drivers and fixing bugs. This is an acknowledgment of some of the biggest contributors:

• Bernd Barsuhn wrote the evaluator code for (splines, patches) in Mesa.
• Bernhard Tschirren wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
• Bogdan Sikorski wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator in Mesa.
• Charlie Wallace wrote the MS-DOS driver.
• CJ Beyer is the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
• Darren Abbott provided the OS/2 driver.
• David Bucciarelli wrote and maintains the 3Dfx Glide driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
• Gareth Hughes wrote new GLU 1.3 Tessellation code.
• Holger Waechtler contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1.
• Jeroen van der Zijp and Thorsten Ohl contributed the Xt/Motif widget code.
• John Stone provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
• John Watson assists with the web page design.
• Josh Vanderhoof has contributed Intel x86 assembly code which accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
• Jouk Jansen contributed and continues to maintain the VMS support.
• Keith Whitwell is responsible for the new, highly optimized, vertex transformation code in Mesa 3.1. This is a very significant contribution.
• Kendall Bennett wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
• Leigh McRae wrote the Direct3D driver for Mesa 3.1.
• Mark Kilgard contributed antialiased line improvements and several extensions.
• Michael Pichler contributed many bug fixes
• Miklos Fazekas wrote and maintains the Macintosh driver.
• Pascal Thibaudeau wrote the NeXT driver.
• Pedro Vazquez setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
• Randy Frank contributed many bug fixes.
• Rob Walker is the sys admin for www.mesa3d.org.
• Stefan Zivkovic wrote the Amiga driver.
• Stephane Rehel provided the Cygnus Win32 support
• Ted Jump maintains the makefiles and project files for Windows 95/98/NT compilation.
• Uwe Maurer wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
• Victor Ng-Thow-Hing wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.

Apologies to anyone who's accidentally been omitted. Please send corrections and additions to the webmaster.

The Mesa3d sources are split up into two branches. A branch that is to remain as stable as possible, and an unstable branch where development work for new versions will be done. The current stable branch is tagged mesa_3_2_dev while the unstable branch is just the default. The goal is to adopt and even/odd stable/unstable versioning scheme similiar to the linux kernel. Hence releases of Mesa 3.2.X should be more stable than Mesa 3.3.X.

All versions of Mesa after 3.0 will also be tagged with a branch id. Mesa 3.1 has the tag mesa_3_1, Mesa 3.2 will be mesa_3_2, Mesa 3.3 mesa_3_3, etc..

To checkout a specific branch of mesa just pass -r and the branch tag after your cvs command. For example cvs checkout -r mesa_3_2_dev Mesa will checkout the 3.2 dev branch and cvs update -r mesa_3_2_dev will convert your current branch to the 3.2 dev branch. Consult http://www.durak.org/cvswebsites/doc/cvs_5.php3#SEC54 for more on branching in cvs.

1. Install CVS client software on your computer. Version 1.9.28 is known to work.
2. set your CVSROOT to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.mesa3d.org:/cvs/mesa3d
   
   csh: setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anonymous@cvs.mesa3d.org:/cvs/mesa3d
   bash: export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mesa3d.org:/cvs/mesa3d
   
3. cvs login
4. Press RETURN when prompted for a password
5. cvs checkout Mesa

1. cd Mesa
2. cvs update

There is a Mesa developers mailing list. If you would like to join the development group list send an email to Brian expressing your desire to be included. Note: The list is intended for people developing the Mesa library, not application development.

The list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/mesa-dev@mesa3d.org/.

If you are having problems with this mailing list, you can report the problem to opn-admin@lists.openprojects.net.

There are a number of things which need to be done in the Mesa project. Here are some of them. If you think you can help out, contact the developers.

• Upgrade GLU 1.1 to 1.3
  • NURBS
• Fix glCopyPixels (overlapping source & dest with glPixelZoom isn't correct)
• Write Pentium III vertex transformation assembly code
• Implement WGL font functions in the WGL interface code
• Implement off-screen bitmap rendering support in the WGL interface code
• More testers are always welcome, especially if you can use a debugger.

• Allen Akin's glean should be of use to Mesa developers. Check it out.