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19. Portability Considerations

Think about portability from the beginning of the development cycle. Although this is a standard mantra for software development, it is important that OpenGL application developers in particular be aware of the flexibility of OpenGL and provide a way for their program to gracefully fall back onto an alternative algorithm or exit when a required implementation characteristic is not available.



 

David Blythe
1999-08-06