On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:26:13AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >> Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <snip> > > Shipping the mesademos package in binary form does not make any > > sense. There are too many libGL implementations floating around for > > that. > > Actually, this is a tempting reason to ship them as binaries. The > program *can not* fail with "undefined symbol foobar". If it does, > either the program is badly broken or the OpenGL implementation used to > compile it is even more broken. But no, I'm not going to do this for > this reason.
A better reason would be because they are very handy for debugging and
benchmarking the OpenGL implementations.
For instance gears is a /very/ standard benchmark, and one of the first
things I like people to run if they are having problems with the DRI
drivers.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
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