Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] PyOpenGL 3.1.0b1 released (finally)

[Nicolas R. <Nic...@in...>]

Thanks a lot for this release Mike. Really great update !
This will make our lives definitely easier (vispy project).

Nicolas


On 12 Feb 2014, at 17:51, Mike C. Fletcher <mcf...@vr...> wrote:

> PyOpenGL and PyOpenGL_accelerate 3.1.0b1 are now up on PyPI.  There's MS 
> Windows 32 and 64-bit installers for the windows-ians. The main 
> "features" planned for the 3.1.0 release (and available in the beta) are:
> 
>  * raw wrappers generated from the ARB source XML definitions, this
>    means that it covers a lot more extensions, including GLX, WGL, EGL
>    extensions (from prodding by Roman Valov)
>  * heavily restructured internally to make sub-packages less
>    inter-dependent (raw hierarchy is now somewhat self-contained)
>  * same code-base for Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4, Python 2.5 is no
>    longer supported, 3.1 and 3.2 support isn't currently a priority
>  * accelerate modules regenerated with modern Cython
>  * Python 3.x and PyPy 2.x fixes (Tom Goddard, Renaud)
>  * dropping of ancient Numeric module as a supported array type (the
>    precursor to Numpy)
>  * experimental support for GLES, EGL
>  * experimental "buffer" protocol array support (not useful at the moment)
>  * array handler loading is now on-demand, so numpy is not loaded if
>    installed-but-not-used
>  * handle zero pointers in glReadPixels (Tim Sheerman-Chase)
>  * respect output-as-bytes flag in glGetTexImage* functions
>  * shader wrapper error messages are now longer to more commonly
>    include the actual description of the error in the displayed summary
> 
> This is a major update to the library (hence 3.1 instead of 3.0.3), and 
> there may be code breakage.  You are encouraged to update and test your 
> code with the betas before we land the 3.1 final.  You can download 
> Windows installers and source-code packages from:
> 
>  * https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyOpenGL/3.1.0b1/
>  * https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyOpenGL-accelerate/3.1.0b1
> 
> or install on Linux/OS-X with pip.
> 
> If there's anything (or anyone) I've forgotten in the release notes, or 
> bugs you encounter, feel free to post them here, email them to me 
> directly, or otherwise bat me over the head with them.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Mike
> 
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