[ghemical-devel] [mmagallo@debian.org: Trying to get rid of gtkglarea]

Michael Banck mbanck@debian.org
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:17:56 +0200


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Hi,

I've just got this mail (sent to all debian maintainers with packages
depending on gtkglarea). Just FYI, or in case you have an opinion on it
:)


Michael

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:11:10 +0200
From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>
To: Brian Bassett <brianb@debian.org>, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>,
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Subject: Trying to get rid of gtkglarea
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Hi people,

 you are getting this email because you maintain a package that depends
 on gtkglarea, which I maintian.  Can you look into porting your package
 to gtkglext?  gtkglarea is GTK+ 1.2 and there is *no* GTK+ 2 port of
 gtkglarea (no matter what the description of gtkgl2 says).

 gktgl2 is a failed experiment.  Back when I created the package it
 looked as if it was going to be a maintained piece of software, which
 is most definitely not the case.  gtkglext OTOH has a responsive
 maintainer who has a clue regarding OpenGL. gtkgl2 works, but there's
 no gurantee that that's going to be the case in the future.

 To avoid misunderstandings, this is a *poll*, not a warning of things
 to come.  As long as there's need for gtkglarea, I'll keep it arround.
 Same time goes for gtkgl2.

 TIA,

 Marcelo

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