Re: [PyOpenGL-Devel] Is this project alive?

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

Best description for the project's status would be "far down my priority 
list". I seem to get around 1-2 days/year for PyOpenGL and related 
projects on average. With that I barely keep up with bug-fixes and new 
releases of the core library. Much of the porting work for OpenGLContext 
to Python3 is done, but the set of dependencies there is *far* deeper 
than PyOpenGL itself, and while they are slowly getting ported, the 
strong emphasis is on "slowly".

My apologies to anyone finding the library somewhat run down. I'm afraid 
after 20+ years of maintenance on a project I don't actually use myself, 
my spark has died down to an ember. The amount of busy-work created by 
the Python3 porting just sucked the joy out, especially as the end 
result was worse than the original... I guess what I'm saying is while I 
do try to check into the project every once in a while, it's really only 
from a sense of duty than actual interest any more.

Take care,
Mike


On 2021-05-08 8:36 a.m., Barak Korren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to learn a bit about PyOpenGL and OpenGLContext and 
> the state of things does not seem to be encouraging.
> While PyOpenGL is installable, OpenGLContext does not seem to be. 
> After a bit a of searching I managed to find the code in GitHub (The 
> docs referred me to LaunchPad and Bazaar which I really hope aren't 
> still being used), and the version there was at least installable, but 
> I quickly found out it contains a lot of what seems to be Python 3 
> incompatible code.
>
> Bottom line is that I couldn't even get past the first tutorial.
>
> I guess I could roll my sleeves and hack a bit at OpenGLContext to at 
> least get the tutorials to work on Python 3, but would it be worth my 
> time? Is there anyone that is interested in keeping these projects 
> going? Given that the latest commits seem to have been made two years 
> ago I'm not so sure about that.
>
> (BTW, there is a PR on the GitHub repo that tries to fix one of the 
> issue I've seen as well)
>
> Regards,
> Barak.
>
>
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