PyOpenGL 3.0.2 (final, finally) has been released. The major changes since
3.0.1 (released in 2010!) are:
* OpenGL core support up to 4.3 level [1]
* OpenGL extension support from the current registry [1]
* Some missing FreeGLUT extensions added
* OpenGL.GL.framebufferobjects providing ARB/EXT alternates for framebuffer
operations
* Experimental OSMesa (Offscreen Mesa) context (use the environment variable
PYOPENGL_PLATFORM=osmesa)
Codebase changes:
* Experimental Python 3.2 and PyPy support
* Win64 Support (including OpenGL_accelerate)
* Numarray (the ancient transitional module between Numeric and numpy) is no
longer supported as an array type
* More compact auto-generated wrappers
* Large numbers of bug fixes
Downloads are at:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyOpenGL/3.0.2
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyOpenGL-accelerate/3.0.2
Future Compatibility Notes:
* This will be the last release of PyOpenGL to support Python 2.5 (and
it supports Python 2.5 in source-release only mode).
o PyOpenGL will be moving to a "shared code" approach for Python
2/3 support, which makes supporting the older Python releases
problematic
* This will be the last release to support the use of bare numbers as
number-array data-types
o i.e. passing 1.00 to a function expecting an array/address of an
float
o Use Glfloat( 1.00 ) to pass in an array-compatible value
o Passing in an int/long will generate a GLvoidp( I ) to allow for
easy offset-address-style API usage
* The ancient Numeric package (as distinct from Numpy) will be dropped
as a supported array format
o Numeric itself has long since been deprecated, use Numpy
Enjoy all,
Mike
[1] Note: OpenGL extension and higher-level core feature support is
auto-generated. As always, we are limited by the number of test programs that
exercise more advanced features and the availability of hardware that can
support the features on which to test
-- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher
Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com
http://blog.vrplumber.com
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