Dan,
I noticed your messages about the freeglut packaging being broken.
With the 10.4 branch being created, I think now is a good time to address
this issue. Since glut and freeglut are not really binary replacements
it should be decided whether freeglut should replace the glut package in
the 10.4 branch. Can you give me some specific examples of programs where
freeglut appears to be broken? Again since it is not a binary replacement
I am only talking about anything that is being compiled and linked
directly against the installed freeglut. Also, I noticed your mention
of fltk requiring glut. This really puzzles me as my read of the fltk
package is that it provides a fl based glut replacement. Specifically if
I comment out the .SILENT line in the makeincludes of fltk and rebuild
fltk at no point do I see libglut being linked in. Also the fact that
configure in fltk makes no effort to find out if glut is installed
should be a give away that libglut isn't used as part of fltk. Rather
fltk provides an internal replacement for glut.
In any case, if anyone can point to a particular piece of software
which doesn't work under freeglut please let me know. As far as I can
tell all the major linux distros are still proceeding forward with
freeglut as a replacement for glut and I haven't seen any particular
complaints about that.
Jack
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