Joe Waters wrote:
>
> On 07-Sep-99 Brian Paul wrote:
> >
> > Here's another issue. There's an effort underway to standardize
> > the OpenGL environment on Linux. One aspect of that is version
> > numbering for the libGL.so file (used to be libMesaGL.so).
> >
> > I propose this lib name for the 3.1 release: libGL.so.1.2.310
> > The 1.2 designates an implementation of the 1.2 API specification.
> > The 310 designates the Mesa version number (3.1.0). The main idea
> > is to allow Linux OpenGL apps to relink with other OpenGL
> > implementations at load/runtime. Comments?
>
> Two questions about this:
>
> 1) what group will be maintaining the GLU implementation? Will that stay
> with core Mesa?
That's the plan.
> If I recall, the glx-dev group (working on the g200/g400/nvidia/ati
> drivers) does not build a glx library when you compile that setup, though
> you
> have to have already downloaded Mesa so I guess it's not too much of an
> issue.
> On the other hand, I think nvidia's reference implementation for linux
> *did*
> include its own glu library -- are these the same? Should people continue
> to look to Mesa for the de facto standard glu implementation?
I'm not sure what code base nVidia's GLU library is based on. I think
most people will keep using the Mesa implementation.
-Brian
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