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Re: Testing/mesademos



On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:26:13AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> Jon Pennington <dren@whack.org> 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.

<snip>
> 
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> Marcelo

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