Can someone tell me what this means?

On Saturday 11 August 2007 17:55, Roger Holmes wrote: QT: xine, mplayer. Both are way more compatible with more formats than Quicktime is. QT and Window Media Player don't come close to supporting all the variants of just MPEG-4, that xine/mplayer do. OpenGL: It's called the same thing on MacOS, Windows, Linux, and every other UNIX. There's lots of high-performance graphics work that gets done on Linux boxes with nVidia cards. According to Quesa's website, "Quesa currently supports Mac OS 8/9, Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows." I don't understand what to make of this. Basic OS API features tend to change slowly... and if you want to keep track of GUI or other random library/toolkit updates, just pay general attention to the mailing lists they have, download new versions as the come out, and see if your code still compiles against them. There's been some issues with newer versions of GCC breaking older code, but in general, if that happens, its because your code was written poorly and not to the language specifications. Worst case, you can just install whatever version of the libraries your app uses along with the app in some out of the way place, and ignore changes to the system libraries, GUI, etc, pretty trivially. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org