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Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew
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Alex Charlton |
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Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew |
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Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:17:14 -0400 |
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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).
Mario,
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.
--
Alex
Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew, Stephen Eilert, 2014/04/16