This is something I've seen in a few threads about OpenGL, especially when comparing it to D3D (I know, I know..). OpenGL doesn't require you to use extensions to access anything beyond 1.2. If you have a compliant 2.0 library plus header file then you can quite happily use any 2.0 function you like without having to use extensions, whether in GLee or not. The difficulty lies with windows, which doesn't provide access directly to 1.2+ functions. This is changing in vista to 1.5 I believe.

I'm saying this here because I don't like to start/get involved in flame wars, but it annoys the hell out of me when people suggest that OpenGL is flawed because of the extension mechanism, when in fact it's a great boon - it not only neatly solves the problem of MS's (understandable) lack of OpenGL support, but it also provides a nice way to test out bleeding-edge functions of your graphics card.

Now if you were to say something about the ARB being slow to bring extensions into the core, then you might have a point :).


btw, I'm still alive and working on my game. I'm definitely going to be entering something in 4e5, but I'm afraid that as it stands now it's a whole lot more sucky than I imagined it would be at this point.