Re: XFree86, Mesa, Debian, and libGLU revisited
Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:54:03AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > > However, a consensus has formed of late among the XFree86 developers, in
> > > conjunction with Brian Paul (the mastermind of the Mesa project), that
> > > libGLU should be shipped, built and installed with the rest of Mesa as part
> > > of the XFree86 distribution. I've corresponded with Brian on this point,
> > > and he suggests that the 3 libraries, libGL, libGLU, and libOSMesa, be
> > > shipped in one package. I see no compelling reason to do otherwise.
> >
> > What is Debian's policy regarding OpenGL libraries provided by
> > the hardware vendor (NVidia, for example)? Don't we get a
> > packaging conflict here?
>
> No. Debian has a virtual package called "libgl1" which any package
> providing a compliant GL library can "Provide" in the package management
> sense.
>
> However, I'm concerned that not every one of these implementations that
> ships libGL will also ship libGLU and (especially) libOSMesa. Brian, do
> you still think it is a good idea to keep all 3 of these libraries
> together?
Yes. And libGLW.a.
> What set of GL libraries can any reasonable GL implementation be
> expected to provide? Only that and no more needs to be handled with this
> mechanism.
Someone else already mentioned the Linux/OpenGL standard base website.
-Brian
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