Author archives: Mike

We decided to use the 21-line spell checker as a sample case for playing with Cython last night. We immediately ran into a few uses of not-yet-supported features (at least, in the default Ubuntu version of Cython), things like lambdas, generator comprehensions, etceteras). We spent a while playing with moving code about in modules to ...

PyGTA this month is going to try a code-dojo with the goal of speeding up some Python package up using a Cython extension module. We'll decide which module to speed up at the meeting, but if you have suggestions, would like to hear them. Should be a (pure) Python module which could benefit from C/Cython ...

I've just put together another in the series of beginner tutorials for OpenGLContext. This one covers the use of ARB shadow and ARB depth texture to simulate shadows.  It's based off a C tutorial and I used Ian's shader library to figure out what was going wrong with my texture matrix calculation. Turns out I ...

I spent almost the whole day on automation today.  Basically getting the OpenGLContext test-suite to run as an automated suite, rather than a set of scripts I have to manually run.  It's not yet doing any sort of comparison of the captured images, but it lets me see the results on a single page quickly. ...

So you're creating a virtualenv with --no-site-packages so that you get some package isolation for testing, but you want to have those 2-3 platform-provided packages included, numpy, PIL, maybe a DB adapter.  Is a script to create a symlink the best approach?  What about when you aren't in control of the virtualenv and you just ...

I've just finished the 3.0.1b1 release of PyOpenGL. This release is mostly just bug-fixes from the 3.0.1a4 release. There are fixes to glGet and glGetActiveUniform, a script to retrieve and fixes to support Togl binary installations, exposure of the OpenGL 3.2 entry points (though largely untested, as I have no hardware over OpenGL 2.1), ...

Had a user complain that we don't have Togl support any more (again).  It's another one of those "blah" tasks that I really feel ambivalent about.  I've long since completely given up on Tkinter, particularly since it's no longer installed by default on any reasonable Linux distributions.  However, Togl, while still not (AFAICS) packaged for ...

I don't really use Windows.  I have a Vista partition on my laptop that I use for compiling and releasing projects, but it's a 32-bit image.  I honestly don't care enough about Win64 to buy a copy, but there are obviously people who do want to run PyOpenGL on it.  So, any Win64 developers feel ...

The main work laptop has been suspend-less since it was updated to Ubuntu Jaunty, a situation that tended to annoy the heck out of me.  So today as I worked I had the machine do an update to Kubuntu Karmic.

There was some messiness around some broken packages, Open Office Mail Merge, a few support ...