Re: What's the deal with gtkglarea?

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:37:03PM -0400, David Morse wrote:
> What's up with gtkglarea?  The version in Fedora Core 4 has its most
> recent ChangeLog entry in 2002.  The author's page for it is 404.

GtkGLArea is effectively dead.  GtkGLExt is a much better
replacement for Gtk+2 apps.

> Yet its popular enough to be in every distro.

It's more like ,most distros include it as a legacy package
because some apps still depend on it`.

Yeti


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