nVidia's latest drivers are finally in Debian unstable and wending their way to testing; meanwhile I've come across more functionality that I need and is missing from OpenGL.xs in SDL_perl 1.x. And of course OpenGL.pm is turning up the friendly competition by suddenly adding support for lots of new stuff after being unchanged for a great while. It seems the time has finally come to start the oft-delayed merge of my "OpenGL fixes for 1.x" tree into the official SDL_Perl 2.x tree.
I've pulled a copy of the latest SVN version (r26 as I write this) and have started looking around to understand the build system and other changes since 1.x. At this point, I've got a few questions before I get started with the meat of the merge: 1. Where can I find the scripts/ directory containing the constant module generators (gl_const.pl, sdl_const.pl, and so on)? 2. Do you prefer updates in the form of emails containing inline patches, emails with patch attachments, or direct svn commits? 3. If svn commits are preferred, how do I register for a commitbit? 4. Do you prefer each patch/commit to be exactly one change, or are multiple simultaneous changes allowed if they are all small? 5. Would you accept a patch/commit reordering the functions in OpenGL.xs, either to pure alphabetical, or by GL/GLU version and then alphabetically? (This is not a requirement for me to do the other merges, but it makes it much easier to make sure everything is complete when comparing against the OpenGL references. Plus it's just nice to be able to find things easily when working in the source ....) 6. Any objection to switching from ifdef for various GL/GLU versions to one of the standard extension loader libraries such as GLsdk, GLee, or GLEW? (Right now I'm leaning towards GLEW because it seems to be equal or favored by the ARB, Khronos, and nVidia.) Among other things this would allow the builds to be independent of borken system headers, and properly handle runtime GL/GLU versions not matching compile time, important for packaged versions of SDL_Perl. 7. I would be doing primary work on Debian testing, i686 and amd64. I also have access to a Mac G4 running 10.3.9 that I can use to test my changes for portability, but I have no Mac compiling skills. Anyone have directions for getting everything necessary to compile SDL_Perl installed/built on a PPC Mac? -'f
