wither the Platform

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 14:34:20 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The OpenGL stuff is a hard one, since it is large, but a very big painful
> build if you need it. Perhaps we need server/non-server versions of the
> platform - but only if we can get them out on the same day.


OpenGL has always been an odd fit; it was included partly because of the
size and complexity to build, but also because it was felt that
batteries-included had to include *some* kind of graphics library. I'm
inclined to think that it doesn't really belong in the core Platform,
myself.

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