On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Cédric Boutillier <cedric.boutill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I announced in the BTS that I would take care of the transition of > ruby-opengl to gem2deb (#651702). I think I was a little bit too > optimistic... > > I managed to solve #650605 in the repo, and did some of the work > for the transition. However, I still get a huge number of failures and > errors when running the test suite (same statistics with ruby1.8 and > ruby1.9). > > I have unfortunately not enough knowledge in C to dig into the cryptic C > extensions and solve these issues. Some of the issues are due to a > problem with types: functions supposed to return boolean > return integers (tests return true instead of false) (I am using amd64). > > I could not run the test suite from the source package libopengl-ruby > either... > > I thought that ruby-opengl could be simply ditched, since it has not > received any update from upstream for three years, and upstream is not > responsive. I see that ruby-sdl has transitionned to gem2deb packaging > and needs ruby-opengl. If we cannot/will not solve these problems, an > alternative to ruby-opengl is listed on ruby-sdl web page: riko [1] > There is also a ffi-opengl [2]. I am not using myself these packages and > just wanted to help the transition. Do people caring about ruby-sdl > (Youhei ?) could help, or have an opinion on this? > > [1] http://www.kumaryu.net/proj/ruby-riko/ > [2] https://github.com/remogatto/ffi-opengl
Perhaps also try to sort through how Drbrain is doing it? https://github.com/drbrain/opengl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ruby-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAN5oe=3gafrf9wjqkcv2i6+ur2mo_ookaeap93bqepr5fcd...@mail.gmail.com
