On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:23:17PM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote: > Hi, my name is Thomas Wouters and I'm looking for a mentor. :) > The PyOpenGL debian package, python-opengl, is heavily outdated, being > version 1.5.7 whereas the upstream stable version is 2.0.0.44 by now. It > also has some other issues, like being built against the wrong version of > Tk. PyOpenGL 2.0 is a not-quite-compatible release though, being one of > those 'rewrite' major changes. It does improve greatly on the Python OpenGL > bindings, and fixes a bunch of bugs. Python-opengl's maintainer, Enrique > Zanardi (see Cc), doesn't have the time or inclination anymore to maintain > the package, as he explained in a seperate email to me, and offered I adopt > the package or build new binary packages. In either case, I'm in need of a > mentor. > I've debianized PyOpenGL 2.0.0.44 based on how python-opengl 1.5.7 does it, [...] I subsequently re-did the debianization the Proper way, yielding separate packages for each of the available Python versions. I also split off the Togl part (Tkinter bindings for OpenGL) into seperate packages so python-opengl2 doesn't depend on python-tk. Unfortunately, because python2.1-tk is built against a different tk (8.3, rather than 8.4) I can't build python2.1-togl from the same source package. Not too big a deal, I think. The licensing is still a bit vague. One of the licenses that covers it is the SGI Free Software License B, which is only available in PostScript or MS Word format. I converted it to text for the copyright file for reference, and included the original postscript. I've also emailed about the legality and DSFG-compliance of that conversion, the SGI license and the other licenses to debian-legal, but haven't heard back yet. Another problem I had was with lintian: E: python2.3-togl: python-script-but-no-python-dep ./usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/OpenGL/Tk/__init__.py E: python2.2-togl: python-script-but-no-python-dep ./usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/OpenGL/Tk/__init__.py Both packages only depend on python2.x, as they should be installable even if the 'python' package is of a different version. Yet lintian does not complain about the python2.x-opengl packages ? I'm confused. Lintian gives no other errors, however. The end result is this list (I should probably change the short descriptions a bit :-) python-opengl2 - Python binding to OpenGL python-togl - Python binding to OpenGL python2.1-opengl2 - Python binding to OpenGL python2.2-opengl2 - Python binding to OpenGL python2.2-togl - Python binding to OpenGL python2.3-opengl2 - Python binding to OpenGL python2.3-togl - Python binding to OpenGL The packages can be had from here: deb http://www.xs4all.nl/~thomas/debian ./ deb-src http://www.xs4all.nl/~thomas/debian ./ Testing and bugreports would of course be appreciated, especially with different GL libraries (Mesa, nVidia, utah ?) There are some demo scripts in the doc/examples/ directories of both the opengl and the togl packages, but they aren't very good quality. I also have a simple python script that uses GL, GLU and GLUT from the python-opengl2 package, as well as python-numeric, that might be more obvious to test with: http://www.xs4all.nl/~thomas/torus.py It has a solid torus orbited by three suns of different sizes and colours. The largest, white sun is actually a spotlight aiming slightly off-center of the torus. Depending on your GLUT library, the edges of the spotlight on the torus will seem 'blocky'; this is 'correct'. The suns start rotating when you press the left mousebutton (in the window.) Holding down the left button and dragging the mouse rotates your point of view. Pressing escape exits. It doesn't do much beyond that. It's an heavily-added-on example from the OpenGL Programming Guide, please don't judge my Python programming abilities from this script :) I would still very much appreciate a mentor or sponsor (or advocate ;) for these packages. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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