Hello, It is not about OpenGL, DirectX war, it is about Boost policy: http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Portability Quote: 1. A library's interface must portable and not restricted to a particular compiler or operating system. 2. A library's implementation must if possible be portable and not restricted to a particular compiler or operating system. If a portable implementation is not possible, non-portable constructions are acceptable if reasonably easy to port to other environments, and implementations are provided for at least two popular operating systems (such as UNIX and Windows). DirectX does is **strictly** Windows API, this violates requirement of Boost library portability. You may create general 3D graphics library with implementations in terms of DX for Win32 and OpenGL in terms of UNIX, and add some extended features for OS specific API, just like it is done in Boost.Interprocess or Boost.Asio. But in this case, I think it is just simpler and less error prone to use OpenGL, at least it would be consistent. Best, Artyom --- On Sun, 6/7/09, Christian Schladetsch <christian.schladetsch@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Christian Schladetsch <christian.schladetsch@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [boost] boost::directx? To: boost@lists.boost.org Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 1:04 PM It is certainly untrue to claim that DirectX is not relevant to C++. I do not think, and many others would agree, that OpenGL is a real alternative.
I have no wish in turning this into a flame war of DX vs GL. Whatever. I simply wanted to raise the idea of a boost::directx or boost::microsoft::directx namespace, to house common solutions.
The reality is that DirectX is here, it is supported by manufacturers, it is needed by C++ developers, and it will stay here.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Artyom <artyomtnk@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
DirectX can't be relevant because it is not cross
platform API. I may
think of OpenGL but not DX.
Make this some kind of boost::graphics, target both dx and ogl or w/e in a seamless fashion, then you have something worthy.
Artyom
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