On 22 March 2018 at 13:13, Florian GOLESTIN <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks for the answer, I understand now. > > I worked as a Support Engineer and understand the hard choice of breaking an > API :)
Paradoxically I would probably have made the change if I could have broken the API and forced users to change the problematic code with the compiler pinpointing the problems. With a change in convention the code remains compatible so will compile without any issues but will silently start behaving differently. Users would end up with applications that compile and run but have these bugs lurking and appearing in odd, difficult to understand ways. Another paradox is that OpenGL matrices are stored in main memory as row major, but the GLSL convention is column major. Software engineering can just get a bit messy sometimes even when you have the best of intentions! Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
