On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:46:55 -0700, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why do you keep saying that Nvidia's does not count. > What exactly is the problem with their GL headers/library? nvidia's implements their own extentions to opengl. If you build an application against nvidia's headers and libraries it will most likely not work against other opengl implementations such as mesa. You end up compiling programs that need nvidia's libs... and that's burned a few community packagers in the past using system with nvidia drivers installed via nvidia's installer and then trying to hand those packages over to people using non-nvidia hardware. A fun time was had by all. If you compile against the mesa opengl headers and libs... you can run those applications with nvidia's implementation via runtime detection of the nvidia libraries. But don't take my word for it.. take a some opengl opensource apps and build them using the nvidia headers and libraries.. package them up... give it to someone who runs accelerated non-nvidia 3d hardware and watch as those apps breaks on the non-nvidia hardware. -jef"i guess there is a reason why history is doomed to repeat itself"spaleta
