On 11/22/2011 07:20 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ian Romanick<i...@freedesktop.org> wrote:
NAK with extreme prejudice. Technically speaking, these are app bugs. I
absolutely will not disable all correct behavior to work around broken apps.
You are picturing a perfect world that doesn't exist. The world
doesn't evolve around some piece of paper, the world evolves around
the implementations and the applications which depend on these
implementations. And if this fixes a regression (and I can easily come
up with a test where it does fix it), then this or a similar fix must
be committed.
I have to agree with Marek here. At the end of the day what really
counts is that users (customers for some of us) can run the
applications they need to run. They don't care if we follow the
OpenGL spec to the extreme. And they don't buy the argument that it's
right to prevent their app from running because of some minor
technicality.
As long as I've been working on Mesa it's been more important to me to
support user needs than to follow specs to the letter and wind up with
disappointed users. Of course, there's limits to what's reasonable,
but I think there's a happy middle ground to be had.
For more on this kind of dilemma, see "The Two Forces at Microsoft" at
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
-Brian
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