[oglbase-discuss] More LSB-related info

[Jon Leech]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 03:15:08PM -0800, Jon Leech wrote:
>     As a slight digression, I just called Dale Scheetz, who is one of
> the principals of LSB, and asked him how LSB handles these configuration
> issues (I was hoping to follow their naming conventions).

    Some more LSB info: I just talked to Stuart Anderson for a while,
and he confirmed LSB doesn't address this (though maybe it should). He's
off-net for a bit, so can't respond for himself immediately in the list.
Stuart felt that we are likely to need to move to a 1.1 ABI fairly soon
in any event, and recommended that if we define such a symbol, it make
the versioning numerically testable at compile time, e.g. with separate
MAJOR and MINOR version symbols, or

    #define GL_LINUX_ABI_VERSION (1000*major+minor)

    This hasn't been a big issue with OpenGL / GLX / GLU because there
have only been 2 or 3 revisions since 1.0, but we don't have to
slavishly follow the GL preprocessor convention if we do choose to do
this.

    Jon Leech
    SGI