Re: [openglean-devel]Status...

[Richard R. <sf...@ol...>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:47:02PM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
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> fixed, and new bug reports were opened on them.  I think that I'll
> try to do a version bump after I fix those (unless more problems show
> up), and provide a binary WIN32 release.

As of March 23, OpenGLEAN 0.2.1 is out.  A significant new feature
is auxiliary buffers for OpenGL rendering.  This is the first
GLUT-family member to offer a release with this feature, I believe.

freeglut has an unreleased version of this feature.  Before releasing
this in OpenGLEAN, I tried to discuss the API with them, but they would
not ("do what you want", said one of the freeglut devlopers, effectively
closing the discussion---there was no interest in exploring the alternative=
s,
such as OpenGLEAN's approach).

I'd rather have one source-level API for this to ease transition
between the libraries, but the freeglut API seems a fundamental abuse
of the idea of bitflags, and will invite further problems down the
road.  If freeglut releases an API implementation of this as their
unreleased code stands, I may add the freeglut API to OpenGLEAN,
strictly as an up-to-1.0 compatibility feature (post-1.0, such
cruft will not be part of OpenGLEAN unless someone is willing to
explain to me why the freeglut API was the right one this feature).


The core library is probably fairly close to what it will be for 1.0.
The biggest change that I expect before 1.0 will be implementation of
the individual features that, taken together, can replace "gamemode".

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