Ann: OpenGLAda v.0.8.0 released

Ann: OpenGLAda v.0.8.0 released

[Jeffrey R. Carter]

Reddit user flyx86 asked that his announcement be crossposted here. The original 
announcment is at 
https://www.reddit.com/r/ada/comments/hc8de8/openglada_v080_released/

Posting : begin

This release contains a breaking change, namely the removal of the SOIL
library previously used to load image files. SOIL has been removed since on 
macOS, it depends on the Carbon API which has been deprecated for a long time 
and finally removed in macOS Catalina. Being a C library with its last release 
in 2008, SOIL was always more of a necessary than a good part of OpenGLAda.

As replacement for SOIL, the excellent Generic Image Decoder (GID)
library is included in this OpenGLAda release. Moreover, a package GL.Images has 
been added that uses GID to provide an API similar to the one of the removed 
SOIL binding.

The long deprecated FTGL binding has also been removed since a replacement has 
been available for some time with the FreeTypeAda binding and the simple GL.Text 
API built on top of that binding.

Some additional OpenGL functionality has been wrapped, see the changelog for 
details.

Finally, all example code has been extracted to an own repository
and is not spread with OpenGLAda anymore.

I would like to thank Roger Mc Murtrie for his continued contribution of 
examples and core functionality.

Regarding OpenGLAda's future, it keeps being in maintenance mode and won't see 
new features unless someone contributes them. I am aware that quite some OpenGL 
4.x functionality is missing. As maintainer, I will respond to issues on GitHub 
to keep the library usable.

end Posting;

-- 
Jeff Carter
"What lazy lout left these wires all over the lawn?"
Poppy
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Re: Ann: OpenGLAda v.0.8.0 released

[Shark8]

Good news,
Thanks for sharing it.