[Freeglut-developer] New freeglut release

[Sven P. <sve...@ae...>]

I think that a new release of freeglut is long overdue. Since the last 
official release, we have fixed tons of bugs and portability problems, and a 
few features have been added, too. Furthermore, most *nix distributions ship a 
SVN version of freeglut, which is not very nice. So my proposal is to collect 
the few things which have to be done for a new release, and then finally 
announce a new release. Things which come to mind:

   * Update the change log. (I think I can do this next week.)

   * Write short release notes, basically a summary of the change log. (I can 
do this, too, while updating the change log.)

   * Are there any urgent bug fixes which are a show stopper for a release? (I 
am not aware of any.)

   * Test the current code on as many platforms as possible. I've tested it on 
openSUSE 11.0 and Cygwin (with and without X11). John: Can you test it under 
MSVC? Any volunteers for other Linux distros? Mac OS X? *BSD?

   * Update the project web site. (John/Steve?)

Note that I am not aiming for a "perfect" release with all known bugs fixed 
and all features under discussion already added. A new official release with a 
shiny new official version number would already be great...

Cheers,
   S.