[vtk-developers] VTK's OpenGL requirements

[tom fogal]

On 03/07/2011 10:15 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 08:43:47 +0530, Karthik Krishnan said:
>>> Put another way, if an OS/driver supported only non-legacy/non-
>>> deprecated functionality, would VTK be OK?
>>
>> No. But its unlikely that any OS/driver would do that.
>
> More precisely: it's unlikely they'd do that in the short/medium term.
> In the long term, it's a certainty.

actually, it's basically a certainty that they won't remove those 
functions.  It would break far too much existing code, and they have to 
care about binary compatibility.

Perhaps long-long-long-term, but I don't see OpenGL 2.x context creation 
methods going away during my career.

-tom