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Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew
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Mario Domenech Goulart |
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Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew |
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Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:35:23 +0000 |
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:17:14 -0400 Alex Charlton <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
>> I have a few notes, though. I don't think downloading glcorearb.h at
>> install time is a good idea. Here are some of the reasons:
>>
>> * it'll probably make the life for system packagers a bit difficult,
>> since it'll be hard to have a predictable source code based only on
>> opengl-glew egg's version. For example, glcorearb.h may change while
>> opengl-glew is at the same version -- you'd have the same version for
>> the package, but the source code may be different.
>>
>> * people that fetch eggs source code to install on systems with no
>> Internet connection will probably have a hard time installing
>> opengl-glew.
>>
>> * opengl-glew relies on wget. AFAIK, it's not available on Windows by
>> default. I think this dependency should be mentioned on the
>> documentation (probably in the "Requirements" section).
>
> Thanks for the feedback (and for adding my egg)! These are all
> excellent points. I was clearly valuing too highly the convenience
> that downloading at install time afforded me. I’ve made a new release
> that includes glcorearb.h.
Excellent. Thank you.
Best wishes.
Mario
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Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew, Stephen Eilert, 2014/04/16