[gef3d-dev] JOGL did NOT get IP approved

["Jens v.P." <eclipse-mailinglist@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

yesterday was a bad day for GEF3D and other 3D related projects at Eclipse:

    JOGL did not get IP approved.

Without JOGL and LWJGL (which did not get IP approved either) I'm afraid 
there will be no OpenGL wrapper library left to put into the Eclipse 
orbit. For details, see http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2840

While this sounds pretty dramatically, I still haven't lost all hopes. 
As far as I understand the situation, the main problem of getting JOGL 
IP approved was the Oracle/Sun merge. So it simply was bad timing. We 
(especially Barb Cochrane, who did the due diligence) weren't able to 
find a person responsible for JOGL at Oracle/Sun. Maybe we'll be able to 
find someone in a couple of weeks (or months?).

Similar to SVN, we can still work on GEF3D and rely on 3rd party 
libraries not added to the orbit. In a couple of weeks I hope to create 
a build system, maybe we can figure out a way of how to deal with LWJGL 
or JOGL.

Besides, there were some SWT OpenGL bindings. I don't know the current 
state of this package and I'm not sure whether it makes sense to create 
our own OpenGL bindings. I'm not sure about how much work this would be, 
since we already provide a lot of things usually provided by these 
wrapper libraries (such as basic shapes, the 3D geometry package and so 
on). Maybe it wouldn't be that hard to revive these SWT bindings... 
Maybe we could even try to create a Google Summer of Code project for 
this? What do you think?

Cheers,

Jens