From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC708BB81 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:32:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBU7WJ14023944 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:32:19 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA25376 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:32:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from mz3.forethought.net (mzpi5.forethought.net [216.241.36.14]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBU7WH1t023939 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:32:18 +0100 Received: from [216.241.35.41] (helo=[10.0.0.2]) by mz3.forethought.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Cjun9-0007D7-Ki for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:32:15 -0700 Message-ID: <41D3AF22.4040207@havenrock.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:32:50 -0700 From: Matt Gushee User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OpenGL support in LablGTK2? References: <20041207.012835.92585998.oandrieu@nerim.net> <41B5034A.7040608@havenrock.com> <20041208.093321.97240145.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <20041224.105646.130245849.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <20041224.105646.130245849.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41D3AF03.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41D3AF01.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 lablgtk:01 wrote:01 gtkglarea:01 gtk:01 ocaml:01 lablgtk:01 gtkglarea:01 gtk:01 incompatible:01 jacques:01 opengl:01 opengl:01 volunteer:02 seems:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=NO_OBLIGATION autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Jacques Garrigue wrote: > After a bit more testing, it seems that the problem with gtkglarea2 is > not directly related to gtk, but rather to Xorg 6.7. > That is, after upgrading to Xorg 6.8.1, the problem was solved. > So I have no plans to switch to gtkglext anymore, as this doesn't seem > so much worthwhile. Wow. Maybe I misunderstand, but are you really saying there's nothing to worry about? Now, it seems to me that you contribute a great deal to OCaml, and even if that weren't the case, you're still a volunteer developer. So of course you are under no obligation to add any requested features to your software, and I don't wish to suggest otherwise. But the above rationale seems horribly short-sighted. The problem is not so much that LablGTK depends on a *broken* package, as that it depends on an *unmaintained* one. That being the case: 1) at some point in the not-too-distant future, gtkglarea will likely become unusable due to incompatible changes in GTK itself. 2) already, at least some Linux distributions are lacking a gtkglarea2 package. Thus, lablgtk with OpenGL support can't be provided as a package for those distributions. Please don't be satisfied, just because the packages happen to build on your system today. -- Matt Gushee Englewood, CO, USA