Re: experimental proposal
Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > SL> Consider the OpenGL model, where loads of extension exists, and from > > SL> time to time the ARB does pull in some of the extensions to become a > > SL> standard part of the OpenGL spec, and bump the OpenGL minor version. > > Why is this better than defining a profile ? (A set of extensions.) > > SL> David doesn't seem keen on letting this be the X.Org people. > > And he's right about that, at any rate. > ...because strife and division are always good ideas? I think it's more correct to say that market forces are perennially more efficient at producing standards than committees. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [email protected] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals.