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

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

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Brian Paul wrote:

> > 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.
 
Hmmm - agreed.

So what we *really* need is a new 'GLXU' library that contains
utility functions that apply to GLX.

  GLXU is to GLX as GLU is to GL

...but then you descend a slippery slope that leads you
back to GLUT.

> 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!
 
Please - don't remind me.

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