On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Brian Paul wrote:
> I think we all agree that the library name should be
> "libGL.so.1.2.something"
>
> Josh's suggestion for something=030100 is good, even though I doubt
> there'd be more than 9 patch levels to a given release.
>
> If we don't encode the Mesa version in the "something" part, people
> may wonder what version of Mesa they have (it might not even be a
> Mesa implementation; consider Metrolink or Xi).
>
> I guess "strings libGL.so.1.2 | grep Mesa" would be the answer.
Or just get a program that prints glGetString(***) into all the
standard Linux distro's.
I'm currently giving ALL my OpenGL software menu entries that
dump out all the glGetString contents to stderr...it's making
fault diagnosis 1,000,000 times easier:
Newbie: Your program won't use my hardware - you suck.
Me : What Mesa/OpenGL are you using?
Newbie: I just recompiled Mesa for my hardware.
Me : Are you sure?
Newbie: Yes.
Me : Are you really sure?
Newbie: Yes.
Me : Are you really, really, REALLY sure?
...
3 weeks and 400 emails later
...
Me: So it was some half-assed MiniGL that came
with Quake after all?
Newbie: <sheepishly>...yes...sorry.
Now, if my program runs at all, I can at least tell
people to mail me everything the program said and
*KNOW* for sure which version of what I've got here.
Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail)
Raytheon Systems Inc. (817)619-2466 (Fax)
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