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Jon Leech edited this page Sep 20, 2017 · 1 revision

OpenGL.org SDK Migration Status

Last modified 2017-09 (See personal email folder gl/migration)

Libraries - opengl.org/sdk/libs/

Equalizer - splash page linking to an external website which appears

to be dead. The code itself lives on https://github.com/Eyescale/Equalizer#readme and is still active.

Status: Contacted them via https://github.com/Eyescale/Equalizer/issues/614 . Development has slowed, but still active.

Todo: Curate link pointing to github project. Redirect old links to SDK root.

GLee - splash page linking to a nearly-dead external website + old zip file of code

Source is on https://sourceforge.net/projects/glee/ and hasn't been touched in about 5 years.

Status: Filed https://sourceforge.net/p/glee/bugs/5/ to determine current status. No response as of 2017-09.

Todo: Drop the link and redirect old links to SDK root.

GLEW - splash page linking to active website and project

Source is at https://github.com/nigels-com/glew

Status: Filed https://github.com/nigels-com/glew/issues/132 . Project is actively maintained.

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root

GLUS - splash page linking to active project

Source is at https://github.com/McNopper/GLUS .

Status: Filed https://github.com/McNopper/GLUS/issues/6 . Sent zipfile of sdk/libs/GLUS at his request. Project is actively maintained.

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root. Don't need to host files going forward.

GLM - links directly to active external project

Index / source are at http://glm.g-truc.net/0.9.8/index.html / https://github.com/g-truc/glm/issues

Status: Christophe Riccio says we should link directly to http://glm.g-truc.net

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root. Don't need to host files going forward.

libktx - Mark Callow's project - links into ES SDK

Todo: Mark has upgrades planned for KTX2 and wants to use a different hosting mechanism. Let James sort out hosting and redirects with Mark. Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root.

OpenSceneGraph - splash page linking to project

Source at http://trac.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg//wiki/Downloads . There have been minor point releases within the last 15 months.

Status: Filed https://github.com/openscenegraph/OpenSceneGraph/issues/195 . Project is still active.

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root.

Tutorials - opengl.org/sdk/docs/tutorials

Clockworkcoders - hosts zipfiles of tutorial code

Hasn't been updated in many years, way out of date. There's an external website http://www.clockworkcoders.com/oglsl/ which points back to opengl.org.

Status: Emailed Martin (christen@clockworkcoders.com) to ask about status. No response as of 2017-09.

Todo: Remove link and redirect old links to SDK root. Don't need to host files going forward.

CodeColony - hosts zipfiles of tutorial code

Hasn't been updated in many years, way out of date (fixed-function pipeline!) External website http://www.codecolony.de/ which is also way out of date.

Status: Emailed Philipp (philipp.crocoll@web.de) to ask about status. No response as of 2017-09.

Todo: Remove link and redirect old links to SDK root. Don't need to host files going forward.

Lighthouse3D - links to external website

Status: Website is still active and has more up-to-date content.

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root.

OGLSamples - links to external projects.

I think this is mostly Christophe Ricco. I didn't inspect all the sites but I think the samples are around 5+ years old.

Status: Christophe Riccio says we should link directly to https://github.com/g-truc/ogl-samples

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root.

TyphoonLabs - set of PDF tutorials hosted in SDK

Status: Email question sent (jrodriguez@parallel-games.com). No response as of 2017-09. Last updated in 2007.

Todo: Remove link and redirect old links to SDK root. Don't need to host files going forward.

Tools - opengl.org/sdk/tools

BuGLe - links to external website

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bugle/ .

Status: Unknown. Need to contact Bruce Merry via sourceforge issue, or direct email (D. Shreiner might have it). Website basically static aside from minor bugfixes in the last 2 years or so.

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root.

CodeXL - links to dead link on AMD developer website.

Can find current page by searching.

Status: Asked AMD - now hosted at https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/CodeXL

Todo: Curate (new) link and redirect old links to SDK root.

gDEBugger - splash page linking to dead gremedy.com website

I believe this was purchased by AMD, then deprecated in favor of CodeXL.

Status: Asked AMD - now hosted at https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/CodeXL

Todo: Curate (new) link and redirect old links to SDK root.

GLIntercept - links to (somewhat) active github repo.

Status: Website at https://github.com/dtrebilco/glintercept is somewhat active.

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root.

glslang - Khronos-hosted project

link within opengl.org is

glslang - link within opengl.org is dead.

Status: Asked John Kessenich. link should be to https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang.

"However, the stuff at https://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/tools/Reference-Compiler/ is still needed, and not replicated anywhere, so if it goes away, we need something else prepare to take its place first."

Todo: Link to new github project. Talk more with JohnK about file hosting and redirects - maybe use github release package area or GL/ES Registry area?

KTX - Mark Callow's KTX project (also see libktx above).

Todo: Mark has upgrades planned for KTX2 and wants to use a different hosting mechanism. Let James sort out hosting and redirects with Mark. Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root.

Nsight Visual Studio - link to active page on nvidia.com

Status: Active.

Todo: Curate link and redirect old links to SDK root.