Bug#574881: ITP: freewrl -- VRML browser for 3D contents works also as mozilla plugin
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Philippe Coval <rzr@gna.org>
* Package name : freewrl
Version : 1.22.5
Upstream Author : John Stewart, Sarah Dumoulin ... <info-freewrl --at-- crc.ca>
* URL : http://freewrl.sourceforge.net
* License : LGPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : VRML browser for 3D contents works also as mozilla plugin
Player aims to be fully VRML97 compliant, complete with scripting in Perl, Java and Javascript, and EAI
.
It is written mostly in Perl with some C for library interfaces & rendering,
and uses OpenGL (Mesa) for graphics.
=== Notes : ===
* that vrml viewer was in debian long time ago but went away...
* upstream is still active , and many efforts are done
by my friend Michel of myosotis project
to made it available to debian/ubuntu users also ...
So I am trying to help and hope we (co-maintainers) can get it back
into debian's main and ubuntu as well
* I just set up a git repo on debian's alioth
(pkg-multimedia team which IMHO fits best)
, imported previous version and working on an current release...
* Currently (20100320) latest release builds and runs on most arch ...
Sponsoring, co-maintenance, or testing will be appreciated.
For more info check my "status" page, i'll update it :
http://rzr.online.fr/q/vrml
Regards
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