Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: [Dri-devel] GLUT inclusion?

[Mike A. H. <mh...@re...>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Brian Paul wrote:

>> I've mentioned this to people, and they are worried that GLUT
>> won't be supported because it is not part of XFree86 Mesa.
>>
>> I do not use Mesa myself, so I don't understand how big a problem
>> removing GLUT from the distro might be.  Is there plans to
>> integrate GLUT with XFree86 4.2.0 at all?  If not, what is the
>> reasoning, and should we support it separately do you think?
>
>I think GLUT should be in its own RPM, independent of Mesa, XFree86,
>DRI, etc.  Since GLUT can be used with any number of X and OpenGL
>implementations it's wrong to create an unneeded dependency on
>Mesa or XFree86.
>
>I only distribute GLUT with Mesa as a convenience to users so
>that they can get up & running with OpenGL quickly.

Ok, thanks for the feedback Brian. (and everyone else too).

I think that sounds like the best idea as well, and I'll likely
do it that way when the time comes.

Thanks,
TTYL

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