[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 26-JAN-2000 18:40:01.60
>Stephen J Baker wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Adam D. Moss wrote:
>>
>> > Stephen J Baker wrote:
>> > > I was wondering about whether we should consider
>> > > dropping GLUT from the next major Mesa distribution
>> > > (3.4 I guess) and replacing it with 'freeglut'
Hmm.. they claim that Mark has dropped glut. But I got a mail from Mark only
3 weeks ago saying that he is working on version 3.8.
>> >
>> > FWIW I think that this is a good idea, though I
>> > can't say whether freeglut is mature enough for the
>> > 3.4 timescale.
>>
>> It *is* rather new code (the first public version is
>> only ~3 weeks old) - but like I said - it seems to
>> work flawlessly on every test I've tried it with,
>> and I'm now using it routinely. If there was more
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>> One other issue that I can see is that freeglut
>> currently only works under Windoze and X - not
>> MacOS, BeOS, etc, etc. I don't know if that's
>> a problem or not.
This may be a problem --> it means work to to to get working programs working.
Another problem maybe that it not 100% compatible with glut. So maybe
some application will be broken.
>I didn't even know that freeglut existing until this morning.
>
>What exactly are the terms of Mark's copyright on GLUT?
>I couldn't find it after a quick browse of the GLUT distro.
>
>I don't see an urgency to replace GLUT with freeglut in the
>Mesa distro.
Agreed. I think it would be best to include both (or pointers only) in the
Mesa-distribution so that application builders can choose. Remember that
(free)glut is only a tool-kit to make programming with OpenGL easier. Our work
is the graphics-core. which does not depend on the tool-kit chosen.
Jouk
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