Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Bug in z-depth

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Daryll Strauss wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:41:42PM -0700, Allen Akin wrote:
> > Since 1994 I've been using the visinfo package that I wrote while at
> > SGI.  Among other things, it's used in isfast and glean, and it had
> > some influence on Mark Kilgard's design for the display initialization
> > string in GLUT.
> 
> Maybe this is something we should package up and include in GLU or
> something. It sounds like it would be generally useful and might
> discourage the use of glXChooseVisual.
 
I don't think GLU is the right place for it because GLU is generally
independent of the windowing system - just as GL is...and rightly so.

That leaves GLUT (which already has it - essentially) or building
a new command into GLX where everyone can get at it.

I vote for a GLX extension.

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