[aur-requests] Package deletion

[Kristian (whoseos)]

Thank you very much!

NVIDIA hosts these drivers as "Developer Beta Driver" on the "Vulkan
Driver" page in their developers section, so the package name is
relatively explicit. These drivers are not part of the mainline tree,
but as I'm not deeply integrated into graphics development I don't know
if there is a single "developer" branch that currently contains the
Vulkan extensions, or if there are multiple developer-specific drivers,
with the Vulkan driver being one of them. Nevertheless there currently
exists another "Vulkan developer driver" that is not marked as beta (and
I guess it's obsolete), hence the "beta" part in the package name should
make sense.

But as always, sensefull and consistent naming can be one of the bigger
challenges in software (or package) development...

Regards,
Kristian

On 23.02.2017 15:34, Bruno Pagani wrote:
> Le 23/02/2017 à 15:29, Kristian (whoseos) a écrit :
>
>> Hi Bruno,
>>
>> these packages contain a NVIDIA driver beta release that is not a usual
>> NVIDIA beta driver, but a special Vulkan beta driver just for
>> developers, based on the 375.XX-version from the end of last year and
>> with support for still unreleased Vulkan extensions:
>>
>> https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
>>
>> That's the reason I added the "vulkan" and the "developer" keyword to
>> the package names – to indicate that this release is a special driver
>> for game/graphics-developers which need the newest experimental Vulkan
>> features. The latest official NVIDIA drivers do not contain the these
>> Vulkan extensions – only version 375.27.10.
>>
>> These Vulkan extensions are a requirement for yesterday's beta release
>> of Valve's SteamVR for Linux. I created the packages first for myself as
>> copies from the current *nvidia-beta packages and planned to just upload
>> them somewhere (Gits or pastebin or something else) and mention them on
>> Github. But I was asked by other Arch-using developers to submit them to
>> AUR instead:
>>
>> https://steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/5/133257959063392200/#c133257959063503682
>>
>> The (renamed) package is already mentioned in the official
>> SteamVR-On-Linux README:
>>
>> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux
>>
>> I really hope I didn't create a mess with that. I expect a life time of
>> the packages for just a few weeks or months until Khronos officially
>> announces the Vulkan extensions and NVIDIA releases a regular beta
>> driver that contains them. The official announcement should actually be
>> next week during the Game Developers Conference.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kristian
> OK, that’s fine. I don’t know how often NVIDIA does developer builds
> separated from beta ones and if they can be multiple different developer
> build at a given time, but maybe it would make more sense to just call
> those packages -developer (rather than developer-vulkan-beta) and track
> those -developer builds if they are one living branch.
>
> Anyway, I’m deleting the 6 wrong ones since they are even less correctly
> named. ;)
>
> Regards,
> Bruno
>