Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui: use libexpoxy

[Peter Maydell]

On 12 May 2015 at 14:04, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> libepoxy does the opengl extension handling for us.
>
> It also is helpful for trouble-shooting as it prints nice error messages
> instead of silently failing or segfaulting in case we do something
> wrong, like using gl commands not supported by the current context.

How widely supported is this library? How long has it been around,
is it carried by all the distros, does it work ok on OSX and Windows?

I'm a bit uncertain about adding dependencies that would limit the
scope where we can provide important functionality like 3D
acceleration.

thanks
-- PMM