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RE: MESA glut package?



On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 13:04 -0400, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] wrote:
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Julien Cristau [mailto:jcristau@debian.org] 
> > Envoyé : 2 septembre 2009 15:08
> > À : Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
> > Cc : debian-x@lists.debian.org
> > Objet : Re: MESA glut package?
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep  2, 2009 at 13:43:24 -0400, Fortier,Vincent 
> > [Montreal] wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Is there any MESA glut package available?  We have an 
> > application that 
> > > we are trying to port to debian but is uses off-screen 
> > rendering with 
> > > the original GLUT lib from an old mesa pacakge.  It would be really 
> > > really interesting to have the choice between freeglut VS MESA glut 
> > > since freeglut does not allow rendering without an X.
> > > 
> > No, we don't build Mark Kilgard's glut, which is included in mesa.
> > AFAICT there used to be a separate glut package with this, 
> > but it got replaced with freeglut in 2004.
> 
> Is there any process at Debian to ask / vote / propose a new package?
> Because IMO that would be a good thing to offer the choice just like
> it is done in the deb repository for so many other software :)
> Further more because this is already a sub-component of the MESA
> source code that is already provided....

Mark Kilgard's glut is thoroughly non-DFSG-free.  The right thing to do
(to the extent that anything involving glut can be considered "right")
would be to improve freeglut to have that feature that the non-free glut
did.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric@anholt.net                         eric.anholt@intel.com


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