KhronosGroup/Vulkan-LoaderAndValidationLayers

Repo Closed. See README.md [was: Closing this Repository To Write Access [was: Splitting this Repository]]

karl-lunarg opened this issue · 8 comments

karl-lunarg commented

The issue is meant to announce the upcoming split of this repository as well as a place to discuss the split and post news about the split.

For more information about the split, please see this wiki page.

Comments and questions should be made to the discussion section of this issue.

cnorthrop commented

What prompted moving vulkaninfo to the Vulkan-Loader repo? We're hoping to support it on Android soon, would prefer it lived with other tools. Maybe there should be a KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tools?

karl-lunarg commented

We were having a hard time finding homes for the less obvious components like vulkaninfo, cube, and the mock ICD.
One draft proposal had them all in a new repo KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Utils.
But we changed the draft to try to avoid creating this Vulkan-Utils repo and we had to put vulkaninfo someplace as a result.
We felt that vulkaninfo is a basic, simple, "canonical" app that is a companion to typical Vulkan installations and is good for testing for proper installation on desktop and for fetching basic information about the system, sort of like glxinfo.

I'll also add that the Vulkan-Loader repo can be configured with CMake variables like BUILD_LOADER and BUILD_VULKANINFO so that you could get the repo and avoid building the loader.

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tools is a good suggestion for a place to put vulkaninfo and the mock ICD. It does have the problem of being confused with LunarG/VulkanTools, but we already have the same problem today with LunarG/VulkanSamples and KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples.

We'll give this some more thought.

cnorthrop commented

Thanks, Karl. I do feel if you are going to go through all this effort, let's get it right. I was okay with the Vulkan-Utils proposal. Vulkan-Tools seems like a good idea too. You're right, the mockICD is a tool as well.

tobine commented

I support the idea of KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Tools repo for vulkaninfo and mockICD

karl-lunarg commented

Thanks for the feedback. I've updated the wiki to show the return to using Vulkan-Tools.

mark-lunarg commented

UPDATE:
This repository is slated to close for write access on Sunday, 5/13/2018.

  • Existing Issues will be migrated to the appropriate follow-on repositories (Vulkan-Tools, Vulkan-Loader, or Vulkan-ValidationLayers).
  • Any open pull requests will need to be manually moved after Sunday Morning. Each PR owner will also be notified separately.
mark-lunarg commented

UPDATE:
This repository is now read-only. Issues have been migrated to the follow-on repositories listed below. Pull Requests in this repository will need to be resubmitted in the new repositories.

  • Vulkan-Headers
  • Vulkan-Loader
  • Vulkan-ValidationLayers
  • Vulkan-Tools
mark-lunarg commented

Closing this issue and opening a new one so that it'll be on the top of the list.