Re: [sdljava-users] help getting space-invaders to run (GNU/Linux, FC4, GCJ)

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:58:12PM -0700, John M. Gabriele wrote:
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> --- "Ivan Z. Ganza" <iva...@ya...> wrote:
> 
> > John M. Gabriele wrote:
> > 
> > >--- "Ivan Z. Ganza" <iva...@ya...> wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>John M. Gabriele wrote:
> > >>
> > >>[snip]
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >>>I just took a look at the GLEW mailing list,
> > >>>https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=43720
> > >>>and it looks pretty barren.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >>The list isn't actually used -- I should remove it.
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >Sorry -- I don't know what you mean. Do you manage that
> > >project as well as sdljava (and gljava)?
> > >
> > >I don't see your name here:
> > >https://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=67586
> > >
> > >Is GLEW a subproject of sdljava?
> > >  
> > >
> > Oh...ahhh my mistake.
> > 
> > I misunderstood.  No I'm not the manager of GLEW.  My mind had 
> > understood you meant the gljava mailing list and not the glew :-(
> > 
> 
> I wouldn't remove the gljava ML just yet. After your comment
> about creating a glut wrapper using SWIG like was done with
> SDL, that project may yet take on a life of it's own.
> 
> Did you recently separate gljava off on it's own, or was it
> that way since you took over the project?
> 
> Actually, I'm curious about the history of both projects...
> Could you tell us about it? We could take this offline if you
> think it's too far off-topic.
> 
> Thanks,
> ---John

Nah its probably good to have in the archive for informational/historic 
purposes.

First there was JSDL which was NOT my project but started by a bunch of 
people who I have never met or talked with.  The original project pages 
are still up I belive.

About one year before I took over the project I had much free time 
because I was recently laid off and not working so I started coding 
a java game using JSDL.  This resulted in me making many changes to the 
original API.  I tried to submit the changes but the project at that 
point it didn't seem active anymore so I choose to take it over.  Soon I 
realized that a complete re-write was in order and hence the project was 
born.

While working with sdljava when I started to add the OpenGL code I 
realized that it could be free of any dependency on sdljava and live on 
its own.  As long as 'something' could initialize the OpenGL context 
then everything should work.  At that point I started the gljava 
project.  For a while I worked on making a GLUT binding with SWIG 
however I had some problems that I was never able to fix (probably due 
to my misunderstanding of something) so I had to leave it to collect 
dust until the problems could be fixed.  FreeGLUT might be the answer 
and I'm wonder if the problem I had would go away.

So there is the history of the two projects ;-)

-Ivan/

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