From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T02:07:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ruby-opengl

On 7/7/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> 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,

Hm.

> and your website looks very nice.

Thanks.

> 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).

Will take a look. Thanks.

> 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's not intact in my version.

>  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!

Yes. Perhaps I need to rename it then.

I'm not trying to be the new maintainer of ruby-opengl per se. I just
wanted to use more normal lookin gl calls in my little hobby-type gl
apps, and so modified ruby-opengl to make it so.

> 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.

Thanks for the note Bill. Looks like I made an error, and should
probably rename the project to something else.

(new "ruby-opengl" page temporarily taken down)

---John