Re: [Plib-devel] Patches for FreeBSD

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Martin Spott wrote:
> Hello Steve,
> 
> Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> 
>>If we leave the glIsValidContext check in, then we sometimes fail
>>on broken OpenGL implementations.
>>
>>I prefer to leave the check in there and try to get OpenGL fixed
>>wherever possible.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your insight, your proposal makes much sense in the end.
> Still I'd suggest to run some tests at least against recent XOrg
> release in order to find out if it proves to be beneficial with
> real-world applications.

Well, that's the thing.

For existing (and therefore presumably, working) applications, there
is no need for the check because they are already doing things right
and the check will always succeed.

However, for future applications, the check is very important to catch
a very common class of errors.

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