Re: GL.BufferObjects patch request (1-liner)

On Thursday 06 November 2008 08:01:56 Neal Alexander wrote:
> I think withMappedBuffer does not cover all the use cases of mapped PBO
> - please add mapBuffer, unmapBuffer to the list of module exports.
>
> They come in handy when trying to do concurrent/async texture streaming.

OK, this would really be easy and I have no objections. But I would really 
like to understand why withMappedBuffer is not sufficient. Could you please 
post some code snippets plus an explanation? Leaving a buffer mapped without a 
matching unmapping sounds a bit strange at first, but I am really willing to 
learn and improve the buffer API.

I am thinking about a new version of my OpenGL binding, which supports only 
OpenGL 3.x features, without any deprecated API entries/constants. This would 
be much smaller and probably a bit nicer, but at the price of losing backwards 
compatibility. Buffers play a much more central role in OpenGL 3.x, so 
supporting common use cases in the binding is really important. Anyway, 
improving support for OpenGL 2.1 in the current binding is important, too.

Cheers,
   S.