Choosing OpenGL version to support

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

Eleftherios encouraged me to point out this thread on the PyOpenGL mailing list:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28800958

Eleftherios also pointed out this useful StackOverflow thread:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2271048/which-version-of-opengl-direct3d-should-i-target-for-optimum-compatability

Best,

Matthew

[Stephan Gerhard]

Hi,

Thank you for pointing out this thread.

The comments are in line with my experience - the situation with newer OpenGL version

is a mess, similarly the situation when writing shaders. Going for the minimal standard (OGL2+)

seems the way to go to support a broad audience.

I had some fun implementing a geometry shader in fos-pyside, but making them work on

other machines with different graphic cards and so on was a pain.

The implementation of fallbacks is an option, but not hardly doable with limited manpower (speculation).

Best,

Stephan