Bug#208830: ITP: sage -- Supports OpenGL in SDL application
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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
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