So, Roger, you've just given additional, very compelling evidence for Microsoft incompetence! They weren't even able to kill OpenGL!
Seriously though, the OpenGL piece hasn't been a problem on any platform except for Ubuntu, where off and on there's a serious problem with VPython users trying to install a competent graphics driver. The problems that have repeatedly come up for me with the Mac have had to do with operating system changes, and the problems on Ubuntu (other than graphics) have been broken libraries, in both cases in the part of the world having to do with creating a window and handling events. Bruce On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Bruce's experience supporting a relatively small but significant toolset >> for a broad audience is also valid. The broadest audience for his type of >> work is naturally the largest installed base (Windows by a factor of 4?). >> I take him at his word when he says the toolset he cares about is more >> stable and/or easier for him to support on Windows. It seems plausable. >> >> > VPython is an OpenGL based package. If VPython runs stably on Windows, > it's no thanks to Microsoft, Microsoft has been doing its best to embrace, > devour, and kill OpenGL since 1995. > > -- rec -- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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