Re: [Mesa3d-users] sgi's glut vs mesa-glut

[Brian P. <br...@tu...>]

William Gacquer wrote:
> 
> Brian Paul wrote:
> 
> >Raul Dias wrote:
> >
> >>Now I want to make a request for the next releases of Mesa (as a user).
> >>
> >>>From the glut package
> >>( http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/glut/glut_data-3.7.tar.gz and
> >> http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/glut/glut37data.zip ),
> >>it would be interesting to see in Mesa:
> >>- The man pages ( man/ dir)
> >>- the demos ( progs/ dir ) except for progs/mesademos/ and progs/redbook
> >>  which are already in the MesaDemos package.
> >>- the glut specifications (80k) from
> >>http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/glut/glut-3.spec.ps.gz
> >>- The micro-ui toolkit (libmui) from glut package.
> >>
> >>This would make Mesa the central point of reference to GLUT.
> >>
> >
> >I only include enough of GLUT (the core library) in order to be able to
> >run the Mesa demo programs.  I really don't want to add any more to the
> >Mesa distro.
> >
> Hello,
>     I have found freeglut ( http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/ ) and I
> really would
>  like to know how it differs from sgi-glut and Mesa-glut with the
> exception of the license.
>     Glut implementations seems numerous. That's gluttony :-)

Mesa's GLUT is just SGI's (actually Mark Kilgard's) GLUT with some assorting
fixes/tweaks for various compilers.  I don't know how freeglut compares.

-Brian