Archives 2012

Forget "pledges" to release updates and fuzzy timelines

Hey, google/android peoples. Here's a proposal: shame *every* licensee into releasing official unlockers for *every* Android phone ever released.  The unlocker should just install an open bootloader that can install whatever ROM the user wishes (it can scream loudly at the user that they are voiding their warranty, of course).

To be clear; not for ...

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Modernising PyVRML97

Spent a few hours working on getting PyVRML97 (on which OpenGLContext is built) updated to use Cython instead of hand-coded C modules for the accelerators.  The transformation-matrix stuff worked pretty well, but so far the frustum-culling code isn't happy.  I'd like to get the rework done before releasing a new version of OpenGLContext (which really ...

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Android 2.2 seems pretty 2.1-like...

Got one of the phones flashed up to 2.2 (an unsupported release for it), so in theory I'll be able to develop/test OpenGL ES 2.0 now.  I spent far longer than I should have doing that (the whole day, basically, what with various mis-steps and spending hours trying to figure out what the best ROM ...

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