Multibuffer extension gone

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Thu Nov 11 14:02:33 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:42 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:31 -0500, Keith Packard wrote:
> > Around 13 o'clock on Nov 11, Deron Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > > I have never heard of anyone using Multibuffer for a serious application
> > > and I would be astounded to hear of any application in current use that
> > > uses it.
> > 
> > MBE includes stereo support.  More than one group continues to use MBE for 
> > this purpose.
> > 
> 
> 
> Yeah, stereo is needed.  Would be interesting to see if it would be hard
> to add to double buffer, just to have less code to maintain.

Yet, who does stereo for 2D? 

If you are doing 3D, presumably you use OpenGL's stereo buffer
capabilities....

Am I missing something?
						Owen

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