Re: [Plib-devel] Portability; Was: Minor Issues with PLIB Release Candidate

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

Martin Spott wrote:
> Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> 
>>These relatively new C++ features are always tricky - we should
>>avoid them in software like PLIB where portability is a key feature.
> 
> 
> While you are talking about portability: Is there any significant
> reason why the fix that is required to build PLIB on FreeBSD is being
> silently ignored ?

I thought all but one of the changes were in there?

Certainly the fixes for the joystick library are.

The only fix I'm aware of that wasn't committed was the one about
removing glIsValidContext.   That isn't a bug in PLIB - it's a bug
elsewhere.  You need to be complaining (or helping with a fix) in
some other part of the system rather than breaking this library to
cover up a bug in some other library.

If glIsValidContext is broken, it's almost certainly just the first
symptom of a BUNCH of other things that are broken that you just
haven't noticed yet.

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