Re: OpenGL bindings for Ada

[womack@tessera.asd.sgi.com (Paula Womack)]

In article <3jvmvk$t2g@adm09.iac.honeywell.com>,
Chip Richards <richards@eng.iac.honeywell.com> wrote:
>Paula Womack (womack@tessera.asd.sgi.com) wrote:
>
>   SGI is working on Ada bindings for OpenGL but we haven't released them yet. 
>
>Soon, we hope!  Thanks for the reply, Paula.  I have received a number of
>inquiries asking what I've found, so there are apparently a considerable
>number of people waiting to use the bindings.
>
>   They will be available in a future release of sampleGL that we distribute 
>   to OpenGL licensees. 
>
>I hope they will be as widely publicized as the C API is, and not just
>revealed to licensees.  Otherwise, Ada folks will make their own best guesses
>as to an OpenGL Ada interface spec, and it will differ from the "official"
>one, and that would be bad for everyone.  Please tell us that you didn't mean
>"available *only* in a future relase of sampleGL"!
>

No, I didn't mean that. We can make the specs publicly available as soon as 
they have been released to licensees and the OpenGL ARB has approved them.

Stay tuned.

Paula

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