plans to mitigate the OpenGL depreciation?

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at macports.org
Fri Jun 22 19:39:30 UTC 2018


I don't expect any change in MacPorts.  They're deprecated, not removed.  "Native" ports should transition to Metal, and X11 ports will continue to use mesa for GLX.

> On Jun 20, 2018, at 6:26 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth.at.macports at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>       Since the 10.14 SDK fully depreciates building against the OpenGL API, what are the plans going forward for OpenGL support in MacPorts? More importantly, what will be the performance impacts on 10.14? I have the impression that the video card drivers have to provide hardware level OpenGL support for the current performance levels in 10.13 and earlier, no? If so. how much can than be mitigated on the user land side?
>       Also, I assume for now the Mesa OpenGL libraries will be the alternative for 10.14 users. However I am wondering what the prospects are for using MoltenVK as a substitute for Mesa long term?
>                   Jack



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