Archives week 46 of 2013

My youngest threw my (ancient) Motorola Milestone (Android 2.1 era phone) across the room onto a tile floor. Amazingly, the phone still worked, and I've been using it broken for a while now. I almost talked myself into just keeping it, as after all, a few minor cuts on the finger-tip from broken glass don't ...

So it turns out that the xml-generation branch for PyOpenGL was entirely broken. I'd cleaned up a module (OpenGL/constants.py) that shouldn't have been necessary any more, as the types and constants were moved into the OpenGL/raw/GL hierarchy.  Oops, turns out that everything imports that module.  Spent a ridiculous amount of time fixing that (i.e. making ...

The spammers finally convinced me that I have to restrict comments on the blog.  I was up to a few thousand blog-spams/day, enough that I was forgetting what I was going to blog about before I got through killing them all.  Comments are still open for 2 months, but trackback/pingbacks close within a few days.

Was stuck with no internet today, so the world gets a bit of work done on PyOpenGL...

So the branch in which PyOpenGL is generated directly from the Khronos API specification (xml) documents is almost workable. There are a lot of (internal) changes, particularly the OpenGL/raw APIs are pretty heavily rewritten, and I've landed a ...