From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c3220a01ba6c6485 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fc544,c3220a01ba6c6485 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc544,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-14 13:50:49 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pulsar.sky.net!solar.sky.net!jhoward From: jhoward@solar.sky.net (John Howard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.graphics.opengl Subject: Re: OpenGL bindings for Ada Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.graphics.opengl Date: 14 Mar 1995 21:34:11 GMT Organization: SkyNET Corporation Message-ID: <3k524j$a5r@pulsar.sky.net> References: <3ir5g2$5am@adm09.iac.honeywell.com> <3irb3o$sse@starbase.neosoft.com> <3jqb4j$r6u@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3jvmvk$t2g@adm09.iac.honeywell.com> <3k2qkh$3c0@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: solar.sky.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:11097 comp.graphics.opengl:2770 Date: 1995-03-14T21:34:11+00:00 List-Id: Paula Womack (womack@tessera.asd.sgi.com) wrote: : In article <3jvmvk$t2g@adm09.iac.honeywell.com>, : Chip Richards 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. : Paula : womack@sgi.com 415-390-1946 MS 8U-590 : 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94039-7311 The IBM Developer's Connection CD #6 for OS/2 contains an OpenGL interface specification. Would it be illegal if I were to write and distribute an Ada95 library which documented those OpenGL calls? I need to know in advance of having done so. My limited understanding is that IBM will provide the licensed OpenGL binding with OS/2 later. The DevCon CD just gives OS/2 developers a headstart by providing the OpenGL specs.