[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: OpenGL 2.3.0.0

[Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto]

While "fixing" GLFW I was thinking exactly the same. GLFW  uses a lot of
Floats for textures, and it wouldn't hurt bad to add those instances...

As for GLInts, GLFW used a lot of Int32 when it should be using Sizei.



On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 17:43, Paul L <ninegua at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sven,
>
> Thanks a lot for bringing OpenGL out of the autoconf dependency, it
> would really help with installation on platforms like Windows.
>
> I've also noticed that the decision was made to use solely C types as
> instances for VertexComponent, ColorComponent, etc. I'm not sure I
> understand this change because:
>
> 1. There was no default type for things like GL.Vertex3, and one had
> to explicitly annotate the type. Removing Int, Float from the
> Component classes would surely break A LOT OF existing code.
>
> 2. I don't see a problem adding back Int, Float, Double, etc. as
> instances of those Component classes along side of C types.
>
> On the other hand, I'm comfortable with changing types like GLint to C
> types, as existing code should have used GLint instead of Int.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Paul Liu
>
> Yale Haskell Group
> http://www.haskell.org/yale
>
> On 7/29/09, Sven Panne <Sven.Panne at aedion.de> wrote:
> > A new version of the OpenGL package has bee uploaded to Hackage. The main
> > change is that it is now only a convenience layer upon the OpenGLRaw and
> > GLURaw packages, written in in pure Haskell without the FFI. The latter
> two
> > packages load the native libraries dynamically and do not rely on any C
> > headers, making it possible to build all OpenGL-related packages even on
> > machines without any installed native OpenGL support. Apart from that, a
> bug
> > in vertexAttribPointer has been fixed.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >    S.
> >
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Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
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