Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Certification

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

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Iftach Hyams wrote:

> Does anybody knows about an effort to get an OpenGL verification to
> Mesa implementation ?
 
I don't - but the OpenGL compliance suite gets run on Mesa at intervals
and it seems that it passes with essentially complete success every
time.

I doubt Mesa could ever be *FORMALLY* verified as a legitimate OpenGL
implementation because:

  1) Being OpenSourced, it changes on a daily basis and may have been
     modified on every machine it runs on.  Hence the verification could
     only apply to very particular versions.

  2) Someone would have to pay SGI's license fee.  It's hard to imagine
     a strong motivation for doing that.  Everyone who cares knows that
     Mesa *is* OpenGL (although we aren't allowed to *say* that...so I
     shouldn't)...do we really need to spend all that money to say so?

  3) With a large number of platforms to support (several OS's, many
     graphics cards and lots of different CPU's), you'd probably have
     to verify every combination for this to be in any way useful.

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