Re: [Caml-list] OpenGL support in LablGTK2?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:33:21AM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>
> > Olivier Andrieu wrote:
> > 
> >  > Yes, there was some discussions about this on the GTK lists some time
> >  > ago (web archives seem to be down so I'm unable to be more
> >  > specific). I think indeed gtkglarea isn't maintained anymore and the
> >  > new widget is called GtkGLExt :
> >  >
> >  > http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > 
> > Right, I noticed that, but it's not a drop-in replacement. Do you have 
> > plans to support gtkglext, or does someone else need to take 
> > responsibility for that?
> 
> Well, I suppose it would be me...
> 
> The reason I stuck with gtkglarea-1.99: laziness of course, but also
> because it seems much closer to the needs of most people than
> gtkglext. gtkglext contains much more functions, and makes it more
> complex to do simple things.
> 
> Now, it seems that the gtk people have botched something, and gtkglarea
> have stopped working. If this is not solved soon, I suppose lablgtk2
> will have to move to gtkglext, and emulate gtkglarea on top of it (you
> don't want API changes, do you?)

Notice that this is not really true, look at the debian lablgtk2 package, it
builds against lablgl, and everything works fine.

Well, at least the GL examples work with lablgtk2. Lablgtk2 uses the
libgtkgl2.0-dev package instead of the older gtkglarea ones though, but it
seems to be the same stuff : 

$ dpkg -s libgtkgl2.0-dev
Package: libgtkgl2.0-dev
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 112
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
Architecture: powerpc
Source: gtkgl2
Version: 1.99.0-2
Provides: gtkgl-dev
Depends: libgtkgl2.0-1 (= 1.99.0-2), libgtk2.0-dev
Conflicts: gtkgl-dev
Description: Gimp Toolkit OpenGL area widget include files and static library
 A GTK widget for use with Mesa, an unlicensed OpenGL clone.  A Mesa
 development package is also required.

And the copyright mentions :

This package was debianized by Drake Diedrich <Drake.Diedrich@anu.edu.au> on
Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:47:45 +1000.

It was originally downloaded from
   http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~kenelson/gtk-glarea/
Version 1:0.6 was downloaded from
   http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jlof/gtkglarea/download/

Copyright:

GtkGLArea
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AUTHORS
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 Janne Löf <jlof@mail.student.oulu.fi>
 Karl Nelson <kenelson@ece.ucdavis.edu> (autoconf)

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 Jussi Löf <ulinator@sgic.fi>

So this seems to be the same repackaged and/or renamed gtkglarea, not sure
though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther