Re: [AD] NewAPI Poll

[Robert Jr Ohannessian <rohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the better questions to ask is: Will we later regret a state 
based API? Will we later regret not making it state based?

AllegroGL was somewhat painful to write because OpenGL is state based 
but Allegro is not. If Allegro were state based, AGL would be easier to 
write, but not all that much more - most of the difficulty is in dealing 
with the rest of the Allegro API, not which the current drawing target.


Personally, I don't care much. I'm pretty sure we can convert one into 
the other. I'm more worried about things like threads and various 
resource allocations on non-Windows platforms - I know very little about 
those. Someone with more experience should weigh in.



Elias Pschernig wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:46 +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote:
>
> > KittyKat and I were having a discussion on the question if Allegro
> > must be state based (globally, like OpenGL) or not (like DirectX). I
> > thought it would be a good idea to judge this democratically. 
> >
> > Should Allegro be state based?
> >
> > [+1 ] For the motion
> > [ 0 ] Neutral
> > [-1 ] Against
> >
> > Please reply to this mail. Also, post your views in the existing
> > (Changes to aWiki) thread. No deadlines, but please make it a point to
> > cast your vote when you decide. 
>
>
> I assume, this poll is just "Should there be a global active
> display/target surface/bitmap?" - and in that case, yes, I prefer that
> right now, as I said. (I'm not for a completely state based API ala
> OpenGL though - although maybe color could be a state.. must think about
> that..)