Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Python OpenGL

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

Ben Sizer wrote:
...
> Ok, thanks. How much work is left to be done to get it out of alpha?
http://blog.vrplumber.com/1883 is the latest status update.  Everything 
there is still basically valid.
> Is it something the wider community can help with?
Any of the issues there are reasonable for the community to help with.

Biggest help, however, would probably be testing and/or writing 
demonstrations with the more advanced features we now provide.  We now 
have OpenGL 2.1 support (in CVS, 2.0 in the a6 release), but we don't 
have any 2.1 tests or demos.  Similarly, the more advanced extensions 
are often just an automated wrapper, so we don't have any convenience 
operations in the modules.  And really, we could use lots more 
testing/porting for exotic architectures and OSs, such as Windows (all 
flavours), Mac OS9, the various non-Linux Unix architectures, that kind 
of thing.

All of that is pretty easy to work on in the new code base, just cvs co 
OpenGL-ctypes, setup.py develop, then hack and submit the CVS diff when 
you have an improvement.

Enjoy yourself,
Mike

(CC'ing PyOpenGL users list in case anyone else would like to do some 
work on getting the package released sooner rather than later)

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