From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T01:36:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ruby-opengl

From: "John Gabriele" <jmg3000@gmail.com>
>
> I've tinkered a bit with Yoshi's original ruby-opengl. My changes are
> available here:
> http://www.simisen.com/cgi-bin/jmg/ruby-opengl.rb
> 
> The point of the changes started out mostly as an interest in getting
> some tutorial content together, but soon spiraled out of control
> resulting in me putting that little site up along with the modified
> ruby-opengl files (plus some docs).

Hi,

I think it's great that ruby-opengl has an active maintainer
now, and your website looks very nice.

If you're interested in linking to additional related libraries,
Ilmari Heikkinen and I have FTGL bindings for Ruby here:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-ftgl/
(True-type fonts in OpenGL).

One thing, from your home page:

    I decided I really didn't like the way the GL calls looked
    (they used to always be prefixed with the module name
    (unless you did an include) and they started with a capital
    letter -- which is against the usual Ruby convention).
    So that's been changed ...

You don't mention whether you've left the original API 
intact for backward compatibility.  It sounds like you're
saying you went ahead and broke compatibility with all the
ruby OpenGL code that we've all written in the past half
decade!

I can't begin to describe how ill-advised I think it would
be to break compatibility with 100% of the existing codebase
just for relatively minor aesthetic reasons.


Regards,

Bill