James A. Treacy writes: > >On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:20:14PM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: >> Ross Golder writes: >> >Anyone thought about this before? Care to comment? >> >> the PLib team has a long range goal of using freeglut as a base >> for a 'better' gaming oriented library, but none of us have felt the >> mecessary 'itch' as GLUT seems to work well enough. >> >One of the advantages people give for freeglut is that glut isn't >being updated. Looking at the download page for freeglut, it appears >it hasn't been updated since Jan 2000.
If it ain't broke don't fix it :-) AFAIK the main reason that FreeGlut was written was because some apps have problems with 'tyranical hold' that GLUT has on the event loop. The original author got things to where they work, and then lost interest has he had solved his problems. He let it be known there was going to be no further development on his part so the PLib team decided to take over 'ownership' instead of just letting it disappear. AFAICT it delivers as advertised, The PLib team would be interested in hearing about it NOT working. but I do not believe there are any 'near term' plans todo anything other then possible bug fixing for FreeGlut FWIW I don't see any compelling reason for FGFS to adopt FreeGlut as GLUT seems to compile and work everywhere FGFS does. FYI I did build a FreeGlut based FlightGear once circa FGFS version 0.70 It didn't seem to have any problems but it didn't seem to have enough advantages to require a 'new' package dependency so quit experimenting with it. End of story Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
