From: Don H. <dh...@ho...> - 2003-05-27 14:17:09
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As this link points out, redhat seems to be on the verge of dropping GLUT due to licence issues. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90734 They mention freeglut, but are under the common misconception that it's been stagnant since 2000. Perhaps an official release could change that perception? Anybody up for it? _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail |
From: Stephen J B. <sj...@li...> - 2003-05-27 15:24:27
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Don Heyse wrote: > As this link points out, redhat seems to be on the verge of dropping GLUT > due to licence issues. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90734 > > They mention freeglut, but are under the common misconception that it's > been stagnant since 2000. Perhaps an official release could change that > perception? Anybody up for it? Seems like a good idea. However, RedHat should be aware that once a piece of software is FINISHED and relatively bug free, it's not going to be updated very often. Just because the code hasn't been touched in a while, that's not necessarily a good reason not to use it. But it would be good to have a release sometime in the not too distant future. ---- Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail) L3Com/Link Simulation & Training (817)619-2466 (Fax) Work: sj...@li... http://www.link.com Home: sjb...@ai... http://www.sjbaker.org |
From: Eric S. <er...@sa...> - 2003-05-27 23:22:57
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Stephen J Baker said: <snip> > Seems like a good idea. > > However, RedHat should be aware that once a piece of software is FINISHED > and relatively bug free, it's not going to be updated very often. Just > because > the code hasn't been touched in a while, that's not necessarily a good > reason > not to use it. > > But it would be good to have a release sometime in the not too distant > future. One nitpick of mine for the next release would be to have the tarball uncompress into a correctly versioned directory. Currently, the 1.3-2002-01-25 stable version uncompresses into freeglut-0.1 -sandalle -- PGP Key Fingerprint: FCFF 26A1 BE21 08F4 BB91 FAED 1D7B 7D74 A8EF DD61 http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8EFDD61 Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer er...@sa... | http://www.sourcemage.org/ http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/ |
From: Eric S. <er...@sa...> - 2003-05-27 23:33:36
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Stephen J Baker said: <snip> > Seems like a good idea. > > However, RedHat should be aware that once a piece of software is FINISHED > and relatively bug free, it's not going to be updated very often. Just > because > the code hasn't been touched in a while, that's not necessarily a good > reason > not to use it. > > But it would be good to have a release sometime in the not too distant > future. Well, they may see it as dead as there is only about half a month's worth of developer notes on the page (http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/freeglut.html) starting on January 2nd, 2000, with the last entry being on January the 16th, 2000, but a release on 2002-01-25. Also, the release is listed as a "snapshot" and not "stable", plus it has listed bugs/problems, so it doesn't seem to be a very finished project from the outside (I just joined the lists, so can't say what it looks like on the inside, plus I can't get freeglut to compile on my system, more on that later after I fiddle a little more). -sandalle -- PGP Key Fingerprint: FCFF 26A1 BE21 08F4 BB91 FAED 1D7B 7D74 A8EF DD61 http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8EFDD61 Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer er...@sa... | http://www.sourcemage.org/ http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/ |