Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew

[Alex Charlton]

address@hidden writes:

> I have a few notes, though.  I don't think downloading glcorearb.h at
> install time is a good idea.  Here are some of the reasons:
>
> * it'll probably make the life for system packagers a bit difficult,
>   since it'll be hard to have a predictable source code based only on
>   opengl-glew egg's version.  For example, glcorearb.h may change while
>   opengl-glew is at the same version -- you'd have the same version for
>   the package, but the source code may be different.
>
> * people that fetch eggs source code to install on systems with no
>   Internet connection will probably have a hard time installing
>   opengl-glew.
>
> * opengl-glew relies on wget.  AFAIK, it's not available on Windows by
>   default.  I think this dependency should be mentioned on the
>   documentation (probably in the "Requirements" section).

Mario,

Thanks for the feedback (and for adding my egg)! These are all excellent 
points. I was clearly valuing too highly the convenience that downloading at 
install time afforded me. I’ve made a new release that includes glcorearb.h.

-- 
Alex