Mesa Support (cont..)
Accessibility
- Static libraries/dso’s can be built
- Can access or not at run time, depending on display
- Allows programs to be built using “standard” API (OGL), upgraded
- Existing OGL apps are immediately available - e. g. Open Inventor (Hepvis, Geant4), Iris Explorer (LHC++). Thus no user training at all.
- Could be upd’d trivially
Stability
- I built 3-4 releases in one step, got good response to e-mail inquiry during early Linux days