-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 5. September 2003 16:10 schrieb Marcelo E. Magallon: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:55:44PM +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > > * URL : http://www.worldforge.org/ > > > > This is a little helper OpenGL extension library written to make > > use of SDL's mechanism for enabling OpenGL's extensions. > > If you are working on this only in connection with WorldForge, > then this might not be interesting, but if that's not the case, may > I draw your attention to http://glew.sf.net/ ? Contrary to SAGE we > don't start from SGI's glext.h header, but from the specification > file themselves. GLEW has been written in a way that we don't > actually need to have a full-fledged specification file, there's an > intermediate representation that's easy to read and write, and > which we actually write for hand for a couple of extensions. I > recognize some of GLEW's ideas in SAGE, I guess that means we both > are doing something right :-) GLEW works with GLX and WGL > extensions and adding AGL should be relatively easy if needed (not > really starting with MacOS X). We pay special attention to > forwards binary-compatibility and I'm personally proud to say that > it works on several rather unfriendly flavors of UNIX, including > but not limited to IRIX (both old and new generation systems).
Perhaps you should contact the upstream author of SAGE (Simon Goodall) about this. I just package this helper library for SEAR (from Simon Goodall too) > License question: the bulk of SAGE is derived from SGI's glext.h, > which is *not* under GPL/LGPL-compatible license. That file is a > computer readable version of the information contained in the > extension specifications and the file in question only defines > interfaces, it does not implement anything. Is this a problem or > not? Aaargh, have to check this. Michael - -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WJ6CWSOgCCdjSDsRAlhSAJ9LadEPO1GIncreDelH3J3rmGwLjgCfeVsO Z5s/00yG1yH8oXvroGMWO1s= =gAUj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
