[lsb-discuss] libGL versioning & ABI (was Re: libGLU?)

[Wichmann, Mats D]

>I am not a GL expert, but I believe that GL 1.5 is a superset of 1.2, 
>thus adding the additional calls to the LSB should be 
>relatively easy. I 
>suspect that adding the 2.1 interfaces would also work as all 
>distributions probably ship libGL with the 2.1 interfaces already.

Mesa 7 is pretty new so it's not likely to be shipping many
places (this is the version that provides the 2.1 api), but
the timeframe for a change like this in the LSB is a year or
more out (4.0 timeframe).