Archives August 2018

So the laptop (XPS 15 Kubuntu 18.04) has an nvidia 900 series mobile GPU. When I went to run the unit tests for PyOpenGL... almost entirely red. Because the X display had no GLX extension. To be clear, X was running, KDE Plasma (which normally uses GLX for rendering) was apparently using XRender silently, basically ...

So there's a beta release of PyOpenGL 3.1.3b1 up on PyPI. It needs testing on Mac and Win64/32 if possible. You should be able to install it with:

pip install "pyopengl==3.1.3b1" "pyopengl-accelerate==3.1.3b1"

The biggest change being that it should work on Python 3.7, and has the current khronos extensions included.

TTFQuery has a new release up. This release has a bunch of small breaking changes in it, specifically the command line demonstration tools now work differently. It also is now Python 3 ready (i.e. one more package should now be out of the way to get OpenGLContext running under Python 3) and finally has its ...