OpenGL 3.1 within 6 months, according to Neil Trevett

From The Register:

Neil Trevett, president of the cross-industry Khronos Group leading OpenGL, told The Reg on Tuesday that his consortium hoped to start the process of streamlining OpenGL with version 3.1.

Trevett also personally hopes OpenGL 3.1 can be delivered in six months’ time, as opposed to the two years it took to craft 3.0, which was released on Monday.

The key to delivering the changes is the introduction of a deprecation mechanism for the first time in OpenGL’s 16-year history with this week’s release.

The rest of the article isn’t as interesting and basically repeats the flamebait I have already blogged about. I should also point out that the article’s title implies gamers have revolted. This is obviously completely off mark; gamers are people who play games, not people who make games, and the former group certainly couldn’t care less how games work, so long as they are pretty, fun and perform well on reasonable hardware.