Re: [Mesa3d-dev] gallium "raw" interfaces

[Miles B. <mi...@gn...>]

Luca Barbieri <luc...@gm...> writes:
> In fact, given the Gallium architecture, it may even make sense to
> support a variant of DirectX 10 as the main Mesa/Gallium API on all
> platfoms, instead of OpenGL.

The apparent benefit would seem to be greater compatibility with
software written for windows -- but that benefit is unlikely to remain,
as MS basically changes their interfaces drastically with each major
revision.  If Mesa just tried to stick with the older interface, the
advantage of using it would largely evaporate (as software makers
abandoned it and their support bit-rots), but if Mesa tried to adopt
each new version, it would end up trailing behind on an interface
completely controlled by Microsoft, and that's _not_ a good place to be.

It's rather fortunate to have a portable and still widely used interface
such as OpenGL, and I think the Mesa project should try their best to
encourage, not discourage, wider use of it.

-Miles

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