Re: [oglbase-discuss] OK, back to Re: 2nd draft:GL_EXT_get_proc_address spec

[Thomas Roell]

In your message of 17 September 1999 you write:

> 
> Thomas Roell wrote:
> | 
> | The goal here to define a list of prerequisites so that multiple
> | different libGL implementations that are binary compatible can coexist
> | on IA32 LINUX. ...
> 
> I wouldn't have phrased it that way, but we might still agree with one
> another.  I would have said that our goal (as part of the Linux OpenGL
> Base project) is to standardize enough of the system environment so
> that OpenGL/GLX-based applications compile on any Linux distribution
> and the resulting executables run on any Linux distribution (subject
> to the usual constraints about CPU architecture and availability of
> OpenGL extensions).
> 
> One consequence of this is that it would be possible to use different
> libGL implementations, as long as they conform to the standards.

Isn't this a little bit like splitting hairs ;-)

- Thomas
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