Re: [Glsdk-devel] [GLM] development roadmap

[Branan R. <br...@gm...>]

Actually, GL3 does need a math library - it lacks fixed-function
matrices, so we need to provide that.

Branan

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Andrew Gajda <and...@gm...> wrote:
> After v0.2 I'd suggest focusing on other parts of the until features of v0.5
> are required.
>
> We have yet to have any GL code checked in, much less actually discussed
> aside from a quick tutorial list.  Already there are people starting with
> GL3.0
> (http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=244952#Post244952)
> which has no requirement for a math library or a shape library.
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Henri Häkkinen <hen...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> The mathlib is coming well and the initial API begins to close in for a
>> conclusion. There are only some issues left in the current implementation
>> which I want to address before I can say I am completely happy with it. The
>> gmMatLookAt4f function seems not to create correct kind of results and
>> glmMatInverse2f/3f needs some attention as the implementations lacks trivial
>> optimizations. After these issues are resolved and API documentation
>> written, I think we should release a sort of alpha so that people could
>> experiment with it.
>>
>> My roadmap for the GLM development is the following:
>>
>> v0.1: The initial API fully implemented, tested and documented in API
>> reference manual.
>> v0.2: Updated API from the feedback of the community.
>> v0.5: Additional functionality included; colors, quaternions, planes,
>> matrix stacks (?) ....
>> ...
>> v1.0: The API fully implemented, tweaked, updated and tested along with
>> written programming guide, API reference and samples.
>>
>> v2.0: SIMD optimization?
>>
>> I would also like to begin to write the API reference. We should think
>> about it's layout. I think it's best to adopt GL-like documentation style in
>> which functions can be documented together, something like:
>>
>> type glmVecLength{234f} (GLMvec *v)
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope that somebody with DocBook capabilities could either write me some
>> boilerplate or instruct me how to write with it.
>>
>> --
>> Henri 'henux' Häkkinen
>>
>>
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