PortaCello3 Update [was Re: [cello-devel] scroller]

[Frank Goenninger]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 21:46, Kenny Tilton wrote:

[stuff about MI deleted]
> btw2, a note to everyone, not just Frank, in re changing the variable 
> names from, say, *glut-dll-path* to *freeglut-dll-path*. Well, I /think/ 
> i know what is going on there (more precise naming?), but maybe I am 
> wrong.

No, there you are perfectly right. In the case of GLUT you are right
to choose the *glut-dll...* again.

>  So I will just say that Cello is going to follow the FreeGlut 
> model of staying binary compatible with the Glut specification, so that 
> we can swap in at build time any of Freeglut, Glut classic, an OS 
> vendor's Glut, or even the upstart OpenGlut project. This because, as 
> Thomas suggested a ways back, vendors such as Apple sometimes do groovy 
> things with the Glut, so we might pick up some nice energy that way, 
> making up to some degree for having to deal with callbacks from C.
> 

What I wasn't all too keen on is keeping the Win32 specific naming 
of modules when using UFFI (I remember sth like "OGL32" or the like).

This lead me to search for Win32 specifics when there were absolutely
none in it...

> kt

Thanks, Kenny!

Frank
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