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

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

"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> 
> I've had several people asking me why GLUT is not included in
> XFree86's Mesa.  We ship separate Mesa which has it, but if I
> understand correctly, Brian Paul has added the needed bits to the
> Mesa trunk so that it works with 3.3.6 now also.  When this makes
> it into an official XFree86 release, we won't need external Mesa
> I don't believe, and likely will just ship XFree86 Mesa.
> 
> 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.

-Brian