Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] deprecations

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

René Dudfield wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Mike C. Fletcher
> <mcf...@vr... <mailto:mcf...@vr...>> wrote:
>
>
>     note that nVidia has committed to providing support for deprecated
>     functionality on their cards, so you *may* be able to get away without
>     rewrites if your vendor supports you.
>
>
> All major vendors have committed to providing support.  I haven't
> heard of one that has said they aren't going to support current OpenGL.
I can't find a direct source for ATI, but people do seem to be saying
that they have committed to it.
> Marking existing functionality as depreciated is kind of silly at this
> point... considering how little opengl 3.x hardware is out there.
Hmm, and yet the ARB hasn't retracted the deprecations.  I gather we're
supposed to imply that no legacy code rewrites are necessary but that
all new code should use the new APIs.  Sheesh this is a PITA of a
release process :) .

Have fun,
Mike

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