[openglean-devel]OpenGLEAN 0.5 released.

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

OpenGLEAN 0.5 has been released.  The WIN32 and RPM distribution files
are not yet up, but the primary sources, pre-processed documentation,
and the tiny pkgsrc module are all up, along with fingerprints.

The primary source tarball is available for download (tested and
verified; there's always a delay before SourceForge mirrors get
these things).  The others should be available, as well.


Some general notes about 0.5:

 * This marks the point where satellite libraries are now
   being added.  Some things are being changed to accomodate
   building the satellites on a system already carrying the
   regular OpenGLEAN---without quite removing anything from
   OpenGLEAN's implementation just yet.  (Until OpenGLEAN 1.0,
   the library functionality should be unimpaired.)

   In particular, the OpenGLEAN header is modified to allow
   features to be exclusively prototyped in the satellites;
   but if not in the satellites, OpenGLEAN will provide
   prototypes for its own features.  (Useful if you have
   some rather picky compiler warnings turned on.  This
   is temporary and will not be needed once the obsolete
   APIs are removed from OpenGLEAN.)

   Additionally, OpenGLEAN no longer generates man-pages for the
   functions that duplicate functions in gleanshapes.

 * New joystick API.  This has been silently exported by
   freeglut for a long time on most UNIX_X11 systems.  It
   appears that freeglut intends to include it fully in the
   next release, and I had always intended to split off and
   expose this (or a comparable) API in OpenGLEAN.  So...the
   freeglut API is exposed and documented in OpenGLEAN.

   I am not too pleased with the new joystick API as it stands,
   but I ca evolve it in OpenGLEAN, or after it is split into
   its own library.

 * Documentation should be substantially upgraded.

 * OpenGLEAN is now officially in Beta release.

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