[GEM-dev] vertex_* objects WAS: gem port to opengl-es - initial developments..

[dmotd]

On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 15:15 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 17:04 +0100, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
> > On 02/03/2012 01:53 PM, dmotd wrote:
> > > 
> > > is the Vertex code obsolete? there's a lot of references to
> > > apple/altivec which suggests that it was designed for a certain
> > 
> > i don't think there was a release ever that included the [vertex_*]
> > objectfamily.
> > as you guessed, they were developped mainly (almost: exclusively) by our
> > apple faction (chris & jamie), and have not been touched for years.
> 
> I've always been curious about those, it seems like a promising idea,
> anyone know if that's true, and why that stuff was abandoned?

my guess is that glsl became a little too interesting.