Archives December 2019

So it turns out that there's an extension for getting the DRM name for an EGL queried device that seems to work on Ubuntu 19.10. With that it should be relatively easy to target an off-screen render to a particular device. (The extension allows `eglQueryDeviceStringEXT` to respond to `EGL_DRM_DEVICE_FILE_EXT`). Happy New Year all.

So I finally pushed out the Python3/wxPython Pheonix compatible release of RunSnakeRun. The Python3 version has to run Python2 in order to load Python2 pstats dumps, and Meliae doesn't AFAIK support Python3 yet, so I expect I'll just drop support for it eventually. The code is now living on GitHub rather than Launchpad.

So as I work through all the OpenGLContext projects to get automatic (or near automatic) releasing, SimpleParse wound up failing on the 3.x branches with a weird xml test failure. But with Python 3.8 the C code just won't import at all. Seems there was a change in Python 3.8 where it does a load-time ...