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I'll save you the trouble, then. Not gonna happen, sorry. Far, far too many cross-platform issues.

If you really want it, find something that works on OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMS, and at least one Cray. (PalmOS would be a bonus) Once you've found one, then we'll talk.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: The Secret Features of Perl6
by jepri (Parson) on Jun 17, 2003 at 03:29 UTC
    A quick web search shows pages talking about OpenGL on VMS and Cray (although the VMS page makes references to DEC, so it's a little out of date). There was an aborted attempt to port OpenGL to the Palm pilot, they got as far as a library that could draw vertices and lines. So I think OpenGL fills your requirements. I'd be wanting to use GLUT as well, but I don't think that has travelled as far as OpenGL yet.

    I agree with you that there are cross platform issues, but then there are cross platform issues involved in writing a virtual machine like parrot.

    In any case, I intend to personally persue this project (and that includes writing the code myself). All I ask is that you don't dismiss it out of hand - after all, perl is supposed to make the difficult things possible :)

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      Sounds like an absolutely perfect job for a module for CParrotAN. Cool, I don't have to get involved at all! I like those best.
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