2013/11/10 Mark Lentczner
[...] Packages with major version bumps: I'd like to get confirmation from the maintainers of these packages that this bump is "the right thing to do". The bump should ideally only add API, and not orphan any program that used to compile under the HP - at least not without a good reason. [...] GLUT: 2.4.0.0 → 2.5.0.1 GLURaw: 1.3.0.0 → 1.4.0.0 OpenGL: 2.8.0.0 → 2.9.1.0 OpenGLRaw: 1.3.0.0 → 1.4.0.0 [...]
All those bumps are OK. There are a few API incompatibilities, but these were actually driven by user demand, see the HOpenGL mailing list archive/GitHub issue trackers. Fixing any program/library which doesn't compile with the new versions is only a tiny mechanical task. I'm quite aware of the fact that breaking APIs is not nice, but OpenGL itself has changed so much over the last few years that the old API was simply wrong in some places.