On Monday March 30 2015 08:54:48 Agocs Laszlo wrote:
>The OpenGL libs (and potentially a number of other system libs) are not 
>supposed to be runtime switchable. The exception is Windows, where Qt 5.4 
>introduced fully dynamic resolving for WGL/EGL/GL/GLES in the platform plugin. 

More or less like what GLEW does to encapsulate OpenGL (or was that another 
project, it's been a while I manhandled OpenGL...)? Such an approach shouldn't 
be (too) platform-dependent, and thus relatively straightforward to bring to 
other platforms, no?

>Other platforms may get similar features in the future, but OS X is unlikely 
>to be one of them. Therefore the OS X makespecs will continue to pull in the 
>GL frameworks in the foreseeable future.

I wasn't expecting anything else.

But:

FWIW, I think there might be interest in bringing X11/xcb support back to OS X, 
which could justify bringing those "similar features" on to OS X too. I'm not 
volunteering though (but wouldn't mind being paid for doing this either ;)).


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