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'
> >
> > 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
> time to work on it, I'm not quite sure what you'd
> use that time to do...apart from run more tests.
> However, since it already runs all the GLUT and Mesa
> example code, it's hard to imagine anyone writing
> more test code to exercise it further.
>
> We really need people to test it with more real
> applications.
>
> What is the 3.4 timescale anyway?
>
> Perhaps it should go into the 3.3 codebase immediately
> and we could back it out again for 3.4 if we are
> snowed under with complaints. That's what an
> unstable odd-numbered release is *for* - right?
>
> 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.
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.
I'd like to get 3.2 finished in the next couple weeks
and release 3.3 beta at about the same time.
-Brian
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