Mode setting API's

[Ely Levy]

Hey,
It's a good question, my impression was that they are not aiming to the
opensource market and only using it as a starting point.
They had discussion if you release the SDK in free source or not and
although they decided that they would still no one say they still would
next time.
Usually when I say that people tell me that opengl is also controled by
companies, the simple diffrance I see is the fact that opengl does have
something to do with hardware and like it or not we need hardware
companies support, but AFAICS this is not the case with openML.
another thing I find weird is the lack of responds from the developers to
the forum they host, and the fact they complitly ignored existing
techonologies like openAL.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to count on them,
I hope the open standard community would release a better more community
aware standard

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel



On Mon, 17 May 2004, Jon Smirl wrote:

> I'm looking at the OpenML spec and it covers the areas that we have been
> discussing plus a lot more. But the Khronos Group doesn't appear to be very Open
> Source friendly.  It seems that I have to apply for membership and return signed
> documents to get a Linux SDK.  But some of their other projects are hosted at
> Sourceforge.  What's their intention, are they Open Source or not?
>
> --- Keith Whitwell <keith at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> > As I've said, I don't have a deep grasp of the requirements of a putative
> > future mode-setting API, but in the course of other reading I came across
> > MLdc, which is a part of the OpenML environment.  This is a library API which
> > seems to give comprehensive control of mode-setting to an application, but
> > also seems to provide a reasonably easy way to set simple modes.  It also has
> > an extension mechanism.
> >
> > It's currently dependent on X to a tiny degree, so there would be some work in
> >
> > adapting it to become "stand-alone", and it probably has no conception of
> > things like virtual terminals, etc.
> >
> > Anyway, the OpenML spec is here:
> >
> > http://www.khronos.org/openml/spec.html
> >
> > MLdc is a component of the larger environment.
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
> >
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