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

[Michael I. Gold]

If your goal is to move on quickly and allow portability, then we should
err on the side of caution and not allow context independent returns from
GetProcAddress instead of forcing through a sematic contraint with which
several implementors are clearly uncomfortable.  ;-)


At 06:02 PM 9/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
>| Maybe that's a simply language problem, but for me both views are just
>| different sides of the same coin.
>
>Its a question of degree.  We are clearly failing to reach a "meeting
>of minds" when it comes to the implementation details for  allowing
>mult-vendor drivers to coexist on the same box, so we should stop
>allowing those disagreements to derail the effort of making it possible
>to run an OpenGL application on a mono-vendor linux box and reasonably
>expect their application to work.  If this is the best we can
>reasonably do for the moment, then that is all we should do.  The goal
>is to allow OpenGL to move forward quickly for the benefit of application
>writers.
>
>       -db