Monday, December 13, 1999

John Carmack .plan update -- 11:41 am CST, Update by The Master

John Carmack updated his .plan with a plea to any GL programmer/group that would be willing to become an OpenGL watchdog group. I'm all for this proposal, since it would finally get rid of all the half-a$$sed OpenGL implementations out there and force everyone to comply to a single, consistent OpenGL API standard. Here's a nibble of the update, but if your interested in this kind of thing read the whole post:

I think there is a strong need for a proactive, vendor-neutral OpenGL watchdog, or even a small group, especially in the linux space.

I have been working on the utah-GLX team for quite a while now, and while I have been very pleased with the results, I would like to see more effort spent on doing things as right as possible. Because the developers (me included) are basically just doing the work in their spare time, testingusually only consists of running their favorite OpenGL application, and a few of the mesa demos, or some of the xscreensaver hacks.
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What we need is someone, or a group of someones, who can really exercise different implementations through all corners of the OpenGL specification and provide detailed lists of faults with minimal test cases to reproduce the behavior.

News for 12/13/1999

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