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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:46:19 -0700
From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question
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> I suspect a lot of eyecandy would be easier to implement on
> plan9.  I have been thinking about openGL on plan9.  Has
> anyone looked at adding openGL to Plan9?

the free opengl libraries (mesagl) were ported long time ago without
any of the optimizations. they were never tied to the windowing
environment however. glut was never ported, nor was a replacement for
it ever written.

it is a good exercise in Plan 9 and it's doable within the APE
framework, so not too big of an effort. making it fast though is much
more difficult :(