From: dalke at bioreason.com (Andrew Dalke)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:11:15 -0600
Subject: Built-in Modules gl, GL for SGI IRIX
References: <m3aew011o7.fsf@solo.david-steuber.com>
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David Steuber <trashcan at david-steuber.com> asked:
> How difficult is it to set up the gl and GL modules to 
> look on the system for Mesa, GL or Windows OpenGL dlls and use the
> appropriate shared objects for a Python program?

GL and OpenGL are quite different libraries, with different
function names, different ways of viewing the world, and even
different transformation matricies (post- vs. pre- multiply).
It would be hard to make them work together at the level you want.

However, since you don't have to worry about supporting SGI
hardware from about 1996 or earlier, just use the PyOpenGL module

     http://starship.python.net/crew/da/PyOpenGL/

and ignore that section in the Python manual.

						Andrew
						dalke at acm.org




