That's something we've been considering, indeed. Especially given that we now ship our own OpenGL wrapper with ctypes. In the meantime, you can just install vi

That's something we've been considering, indeed. Especially given that we now ship our own OpenGL wrapper with ctypes. In the meantime, you can just install vispy and import vispy.gloo: nothing else will be imported. The dependencies are the same (just NumPy). FYI, although gloo's interface is now relatively stable, we're likely to change its internals very soon. This should lead to a cleaner, smaller, and more robust code base for gloo. There will be virtually no change for the user.