On 10/15/2009 11:08 AM, Chris Marshall wrote:
>
> The step most likely to happen first is to fix the configure
> process so that it does not require an active OpenGL context
> to complete (to execute glversion to created glversion.txt).
>
> For example, if I run perl Makefile.PL from a console without
> OpenGL support, does a reasonable Makefile get built?  If it
> does, with things compile and run ok?  At that point, packaging
> for linux distros should be possible.
>
> The longer term fix is to move from using hand-rolled OpenGL
> bindings to ones based on either GLee or GLEW which has the
> advantage of abstracting away a lot of the details of working
> with OpenGL and the extensions thereto.
>
> Before that can be done, I need to implement some sort of
> regression tests for the current version to allow for verification
> of any such aggressive refactoring.
>
> --Chris

Sounds good.  Always happy to test it out.


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