OpenGL 3 Updates

[Rob Barris]

Hi Simon -

The general idea for 3.1 and beyond includes a few components:

- doing a more consistent and timely job of exposing hardware functionality
- reducing and removing deprecated functionality
- more strongly aligning on a set of common required features to slim down the extension forest
- more strongly schedule-driven process for updating the API regularly
- responding to specific ISV needs where possible
- providing developer guidance on migration to newer API revisions as early as possible.
- keeping the IHV / implementation work pipeline full - notice that 3.0 implementations are now arriving, and 3.1 / 3.2 specification efforts have been underway for some time already in parallel.

[Jan]

Is there already some expected release date for 3.1 ? In what time-frame might we expect it? You mention very often, that there is supposed to be a steady time-frame for each release from now on, but to be honest, it doesn't sound, as if the ARB would reach this particular goal with 3.1 either.

Jan.

[Rob Barris]

There is a pretty well defined release window for 3.1, but no details I can share yet.

[Simon Arbon]

Can we at least have a hint on whether it:

Uses immutable state objects for render state switching and lpDrawArrays for geometry,
OR still uses display lists for either,
OR something completely different.

[Lord crc]

There is a pretty well defined release window for 3.1, but no details I can share yet.

t_{to release} \in (0, \infty) is pretty well defined, doesn't help us much tho :P

[Rob Barris]

There is a pretty well defined release window for 3.1, but no details I can share yet.

t_{to release} \in (0, \infty) is pretty well defined, doesn't help us much tho :P

Sure, let's start with that and then we can play the binary search game until it's more reasonable. Go ahead and lop off the back 99.999% of it to get started.

[ZbuffeR]

Infinity is well defined as 100 years in computer world
100*(1-0.99999)*365*24 = less than 9 days

So : after or before sunday the 2009-03-15 ?

[Rob Barris]

I guess if you get to set the meaning of "infinity", I can set the meaning of "%"..

[Jan]

I heard for mathematicians infinity starts roughly at 12.

[Brolingstanz]

Are we talking "infinity" or "finite and unbounded"? A sphere is finite but its surface is unbounded (lots of wiggle room there ;-)).