[PyOpenGL-Users] For the Brave: PyOpenGL 3.0.1a1 released...

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

I've just managed to get PyOpenGL's first alpha for the 3.0.1 series out
the door.  The biggest changes of note are:

    * Shader convenience module OpenGL.GL.shaders, provides shader entry
      points named as the core entry points with alternate
      implementations using ARB when necessary.  Includes Two utility
      functions compileShader( source, type_constant ) and
      compileProgram( *shaders ) which allow for easily creating
      shader-using demos.
    * Cython OpenGL_accelerate wrapper mechanism accelerators available
      (pre-built for Python 2.5 and 2.6 on Win32)
    * Many bug-fixes.
    * SIZE_1_ARRAY_UNPACK flag to configure single-value-array-unpacking
      behaviour
    * CONTEXT_CHECKING flag to enable rigorous (slow) checking for valid
      contexts before each GL/GLU/GLE call in order to debug crashes due
      to calls before there is a valid context present.
    * STORE_POINTERS flag to enable/disable storage of (temporary) pointers
    * Optimizations to reduce or remove certain wrapper operations when
      the ERROR_ON_COPY flag is enabled.

This release is very much an alpha, do not install in production
environments, use it to test your software and send me bug reports. 
There are enough significant implementation changes in this release that
it would be extremely unlikely that no bugs have crept in.

See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyopengl/files for downloads.

Enjoy,
Mike

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