Re: Povray terminal driver

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:09:11PM +0100, Robert Hart wrote:
> Have you confused the povray terminal and the opengl terminal?

    A, yes, in the title, though, not in my head. :->

> I thought the povray terminal just dumped a povray file that you could
> later render in povray?

    Yes, sorry for the confusion.

> When I wrote the opengl terminal driver I used freeglut, which is the
> default glut on Debian, without even realising I was doing anything
> non-standard.

    Hum, weird then that I can't compile it. I'll look at that after my
holidays.

> The choice is:=20

> a) create a gnuplot_opengl (similar to the X11
> terminal)
> b) require an "enhanced" glut
> c) Use raw OpenGL (without any glut)
> d) multi-threaded

> Personally I am in favour of the second option. Freeglut is
> standard/available in Debian, Ubuntu, and (as I understand
> it) Fedora/Red-hat.

    How about my objection about library dependancies, if it makes any
sense ?

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