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

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Stephen J Baker wrote:
> 
> 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.

Right.


> 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.

In this case I don't feel an extension is necessary.  Allen's visual
selection utility is completely layered on top of the GLX API; it needs
no hooks inside GLX.  I think people who need the code could simply add
the .c and .h files to their project and compile it in.

That way, there's no hassles with versioning or compile-time or run-
time extension testing, etc.  And we all know how bad that can be!

-Brian