[PyOpenGL-Devel] new semi-release soon.

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Hi,

thought I'd mention that I plan on making a small
release soon.  It will be labeled as experimental,
beta etc, as some important(for some people) things
don't work.

In cvs some bugs are fixed for some fairly useful
functions.  However togl doesn't compile easily on
windows, and glut is broken.  Those are the major two
problems with it.

Keeping up with the latest swig is a waste of time I
think.  As it changes so often, and almost every
distribution has a different version.  So requiring
swig 1.3.13 for now seems like an ok thing to do.

There are a couple of reasons I think doing this is a
good idea.  
 1) Allow pygame users to use a new wrapper spritegl
wrapper, which requires some fixes from cvs.
 2) Allow people who don't use glut/togl to take
advantage of the bug fixes for the core opengl stuff.
 3) maybe spur along some helpers/developers.

I've found a windows developer who will make a zip of
the pyopengl installation.  We could make an installer
I guess, but since this is a dodgy release, I'd want
people to make sure they know what they are doing.

Repeating that this will be marked
experimental-dodgy-alpha.


Any thoughts?


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