Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:54:03AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > However, a consensus has formed of late among the XFree86 developers, in > > > conjunction with Brian Paul (the mastermind of the Mesa project), that > > > libGLU should be shipped, built and installed with the rest of Mesa as > > > part > > > of the XFree86 distribution. I've corresponded with Brian on this point, > > > and he suggests that the 3 libraries, libGL, libGLU, and libOSMesa, be > > > shipped in one package. I see no compelling reason to do otherwise. > > > > What is Debian's policy regarding OpenGL libraries provided by > > the hardware vendor (NVidia, for example)? Don't we get a > > packaging conflict here? > > No. Debian has a virtual package called "libgl1" which any package > providing a compliant GL library can "Provide" in the package management > sense. > > However, I'm concerned that not every one of these implementations that > ships libGL will also ship libGLU and (especially) libOSMesa. Brian, do > you still think it is a good idea to keep all 3 of these libraries > together?
Yes. And libGLW.a. > What set of GL libraries can any reasonable GL implementation be > expected to provide? Only that and no more needs to be handled with this > mechanism. Someone else already mentioned the Linux/OpenGL standard base website. -Brian
