Andy Ross writes:
> 
> Norman wrote:
> > Out of curiosity what can't you do today that would make FlightGear
> > better because we are using GLUT that you would do differently today
> > if we were using SDL and what exactly is it that would make FGFS
> > better.
> 
> Off the top of my head:
> 
> + Build out of the box on Fedora, which no longer ships glut.  

I wonder who sparked that :-)

> 
> + Switch video modes on an XFree86/Xorg server, which has supported
>   this capability for 4+ years but have never had a complete "game
>   mode" glut port written.
> 
> + Be able to handle stuff like "Shift-3" instead of "#", so the
>   Europeans don't think our key mappings are on drugs.

why not use freeglut ?

FWIW I would be much more excited about this if we were switching 
to a library designed for highend simulations such as OpenProducer
which by the way also has a portable threading library OpenThreads

Cheers

Norman

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