Re: What's the deal with gtkglarea?

[Ken Siersma <siersmak ekkinc com>]

David Necas (Yeti) wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:37:03PM -0400, David Morse wrote:
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> > 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.
> >    
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> GtkGLArea is effectively dead.  GtkGLExt is a much better
> replacement for Gtk+2 apps.
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>  
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> > 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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I think a better question is why isn't GtkGLExt included in more 
distros?  I haven't seen it in any SuSE distro or RH EL 4.  Is it 
included in Fedora or others?

-Ken

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