On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:38:18PM -0700, Jon Pennington wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:26:13AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > >> Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Absolutely! This is what I meant to say.
> >
> > Oh, sorry, I missunderstood.
>
> It looked that way :)
>
> > > Shipping the mesademos package in binary form does not make any
> > > sense. There are too many libGL implementations floating around for
> > > that.
> >
> > Actually, this is a tempting reason to ship them as binaries. The
> > program *can not* fail with "undefined symbol foobar". If it does,
> > either the program is badly broken or the OpenGL implementation used to
> > compile it is even more broken. But no, I'm not going to do this for
> > this reason.
>
> Like Zeph said, though, the packages are most useful in source
> *because* you can use different libGL implementations to compile them.
> As I understand it (and I'm probably wrong), libGL implementations
> vary in the DRI project from one family of drivers to the next.
> Shipping binaries simply isn't a good idea the way I see it. (I smoke
> a lot of crack, though, so don't quote me)
Errm, a GL program compiled against /any/ libGL should work with any
other libGL, if this is not the case then something is VERY broken.
Of course, in this respect, the nVidia libGL is severely broken shit in
the respect that if you compile a program against it you can't use that
program with any other libGL, however those are not in Debian so we
don't have to worry about it. (=:]
Zephaniah E. Hull.
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