Forgot to add Bob Free to the announcement.  Without him this release would
not have been possible.

--Chris

On 6/14/2015 15:14, Chris Marshall wrote:
> Perl OpenGL Users and Developers-
>
> This CPAN developers release should be appearing at a mirror near you 
> soon.
> The release largely comprises work by Bob Free that adds a lot of 
> updates to
> the POGL module.  If the developers release checks out then I plan to 
> merge
> into the main tree and push out a new stable version.
>
> The one outstanding problem I have is that the test.pl example program
> ends with a timeout in the make test stage and a resulting failure 
> message
> for cygwin:
>
> > Idle timeout; completing test
> > Makefile:1113: recipe for target 'test_dynamic' failed
> > make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 9
>
> I'm at a loss as to how to fix the problem and would welcome help there.
> Also, there are a number of additions to support more modern OpenGL
> features in this release that may be of interest or may affect previous
> work in that direction.  Feedback on issues there are needed before the
> final merge.
>
> Thanks much,
> Chris
>
>
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
>
> |                  OpenGL-0.6704_01
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
>
>
> General Notes:
>
>   * Added OpenGL::Matrix to support uniform shader matrices.
>
>   * Unified VBO extension with mainline GL functions.
>
>   * Restored support for GLX.
>
>   * Fixed/improved a number of GLUT issues.
>
> Highlights:
>
>   * Fixed a c++ name-mangling issue that was breaking builds on Linux.
>
>   * Fixed/improved GLUT version reporting in util/glversion.c.
>
>   * Updated GL Version definitions in Makefile.PL.
>
>   * Restored GLX interface support for Makefile.PL.
>
>   * Improved FREEGLUT searching/linking for Linux and Mac OS X.
>
>   * Fixed missing OUTPUT for several pogl_glut methods.
>
>   * Fixed glutCloseFunc for Mac OS X.
>
>   * Added missing glutStrokeLength implementation.
>
>   * Added GLUT_VERSION to exported constant values
>
>   * Fixed ambiguous warning messages in some OpenGL::Array methods.
>
>   * Updated OpenGL::Array to support 2D matrices;
>     added OpenGL::Array->get_dimensions method.
>
>   * Added OpenGL::Matrix subclass of OpenGL::Array
>
>   * Unified the following extensions into mainline GL functions:
>     GL_EXT_vertex_array
>     GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
>     GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
>     GL_ARB_multitexture
>
>   * Fixed multi-texture constants/APIs/exports
>
>   * Fixed glXXXXPointer APIs
>
>   * Enhanced test.pl for OpenGL::Shader and VBOs
>
>


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