We are going to be yelled-at by the powers-that-be for speaking about
non-C++ issues, and correctly.
Not necessarily.
As it turns out, I should have worried more about the Spirit-Protectionists. Even so, back on thread there was this:
This gives us insight into the intricacies of lower-level API's and the problem of either abstracting or picking out commonalities, for a (more proper) Boost proposal. A lot of people here are interested in graphics, and graphics programming, both 3D and 2D. This is shown by the acceptance of Boost.GIL. And, we have discussed a UI library for ages. *If* somebody would provide an API for both DirectX and OpenGL with at least proper fDator UI, well, you could have yourself a winner :-)
That will never happen. I have stated, and I will say forever, that I am not interested in wrapping anything. DirectX is called DirectX because it is about direct access to "x" peripheral. It is not about abstractions and I am not about introducing them.
I heard you regarding the hardship of abstracting both these API's. But, that is not exactly what you would have to do if you use a lot of meta tricks, which you apparently are not afraid of. I...
No. No. No. Christian.