* Ann: OpenGLAda v.0.8.0 released
@ 2020-06-20 9:28 Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-06-23 15:49 ` Shark8
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From: Jeffrey R. Carter @ 2020-06-20 9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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