New release to set in stone a few major changes. Let's start with the most exciting one!
At long last, after some eleven years (!) of pondering, the X11 EGL transparency fixes were finally merged in Mesa a few weeks ago. Let's take a moment to thank the project maintainers for their outstanding resilience and willpower handling this particular issue : good job everyone! After learning the news, I immediately grabbed bleeding-edge Mesa binaries and implemented EGL transparency in Globuf, fixing #18. Obviously, our library will fall back to setting up an opaque context for the years to come in case transparent ones are not available. We don't really have a choice here since old Mesa versions might be staying around for some time and most users will have to wait for the next stable version of Mesa to get the fix anyway.
Now for the other major change... Did I just say "Globuf"? Yes I did, after several months of pondering (different scale) I decided renaming the project was a necessary evil. I was careful to choose a similar name with the same number of characters, and "Globuf" was the best compromise I was able to find: maybe it sounds a bit goofy, but it still makes sense for the project and what it represents. Fixing X11 EGL transparency was a perfect excuse for pushing this change and making a new release.
We're getting close to the end of these release notes; let's talk about the project's future. The plans have not changed since last time, no release is planned for the near future. I've been writing another library since v0.5.3, but working 70 hours a week is no longer something I can do or want to do, so development is moving on at a much more reasonable pace. At some point this library will be done and I will come back to Globuf with the same "don't kill yourself" approach (or maybe contributors will appear, who knows?) and we'll reach a point where it makes sense to issue a bugfix release. I'm still hopeful when more pieces of my secret puzzle are done we'll be able to attract contributors. Until then, take care and thanks for reading.