[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev43693 - src/kits/opengl
- From: Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:55:59 +0100
I guess his name was in the GLDispather.h header because I may have started
by customized a Mesa's glapi.h but in turn hide all platform specific code
by making a class instead.
My bad for not cleaning thz header then.
Anyway that not a big deal anyway.
Le 26 janv. 2012 17:50, "Alexander von Gluck" <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> a
écrit :
> On 26.01.2012 10:46, Philippe Houdoin wrote:
>
>> IIRC the GLDispatcher class was introduced as an object to hand renderer
>> add-on to let tune the GL API table without
>> be dependant on Mesa glapi. It was never part of Mesa code itself and his
>> specific to Haiku opengl kit (renderer)
>> API.. As such I don't think it was never written by Brian Paul or even
>> part of the BeOS driver he once wrote and that
>> I used to maintain.
>>
>> I don't see why he should be credited here for something which was
>> written already under OpenBeOS /Haiku licensing
>> terms from day one.
>>
>
> When I spoke to him on this, he did mention not remembering writing the
> exact code... however his name *was* in the headers which is why I started
> with him.
>
> This is a perfect example of the results of bad header upkeep :)
>
> This is a *very* small / simple bit of code, who else should be added to
> ensure credit is given?
>
> -- Alex
>
>
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