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

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:17:14 -0400 Alex Charlton <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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).
>
> 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.

Excellent.  Thank you.

Best wishes.
Mario
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