On 6/11/05, Sven Panne
Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
Are there plans to support more extensions anytime soon?
Yes, definitely.
Specifically those that deal with fragment and vertex programs (ARB_vertex_program, ARB_fragment_program) as well as rendering to off-screen rendertargets and such (EXT_framebuffer_object).
My main development platform is x86 Linux and today is the first day that glxinfo shows that the latest & greatest NVIDIA drivers claim that they are OpenGL 2.0 compliant. Hooray! :-) I am very interested in the extensions you've mentioned, but before implementing anything I wanted to have a more or less stable and conformant driver, which seems to be the case now.
The first two extensions are rather large ones, so I could need some help here: The most difficult part is how to map these extensions into something "Haskellish" without losing flexibility and/or too much performance. Some API proposals would be highly appreciated.
Just a quick reply before I have to go. How about just starting out with a simiple 1:1 mapping (as close as possible to the C-API) so you can work with a while in Haskell and see what is needed. Then you could do cool things like incorporate Conal Elliots Vertigo for writing shaders in Haskell (edsl). Shouldn't be too diffictult to get some basic version up and running. The problem is more like on the fly generating asm-code for various shader versions etc. /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862