Re: [Plib-users] invalid OpenGL context problem

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

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Roy Wood wrote:

> By the way-- I took a look at this again last week, and sleeping didn't
> do it.  Something is seriously broken with the Mesa libs in the stock
> RedHat 7.2 release.

They appear to have taken the Mesa CVS snapshot from about a week
before the actual release of that version of Mesa and labelled it
as if it *is* that release.  I did a 'diff' of their code and what
the Mesa team actually released - and there are a number of significant
differences.

Can anyone say "GCC 2.96/97" ?

I'm getting very upset with RedHat over pulling this kind of stunt.
If it just made them look bad, I wouldn't mind - but the lack of
quality spills over onto the reputations of other teams such as
GCC, Mesa and PLIB.

It's almost worth changing one's package licensing such that
only actual, formal releases are under GPL or BSD license and
having the CVS version licensed under some kind of 'strictly
non-commercial' basis to prevent RedHat from doing this.

> I tried a number of things related to delaying the
> call to upInit(), but no luck (for example, try to do it in the glut
> callback for redrawing the view).

Oh well - it was worth a try.  Thanks for your efforts.

> Installing updated Mesa libs fixes the problem, by the way.

Yep.

>  Hopefully RedHat will widely release an update soon....

We can only hope.

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