Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:27:47 +0200
To: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp, garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Subject: [mmagallo at debian.org: Trying to get rid of gtkglarea]
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From: Sven Luther <luther at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>

Hello,

I received this message from the debian gtkglarea maintainer, about the
lablgtk2 package i maintain for debian.

I don't know what you think about this. I personally don't have the
time to do the port myself, but if gtkgl2 is effectively not being
maintained anymore, it would be a good idea to make the change before
lablgtk2 is officially released.

It would help also to be able to use a drawingarea to do either gdk or
opengl drawing inside it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

----- Forwarded message from "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> -----

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Delivery-date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:12:11 +0200
From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>
To: Brian Bassett <brianb@debian.org>, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>,
	Noel Koethe <noel@debian.org>, Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org>,
	Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>,
	Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org>,
	Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>,
	Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>,
	Eduardo Marcel Macan <macan@debian.org>
Cc: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Subject: Trying to get rid of gtkglarea
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Hi people,

 you are getting this email because you maintain a package that depends
 on gtkglarea, which I maintian.  Can you look into porting your package
 to gtkglext?  gtkglarea is GTK+ 1.2 and there is *no* GTK+ 2 port of
 gtkglarea (no matter what the description of gtkgl2 says).

 gktgl2 is a failed experiment.  Back when I created the package it
 looked as if it was going to be a maintained piece of software, which
 is most definitely not the case.  gtkglext OTOH has a responsive
 maintainer who has a clue regarding OpenGL. gtkgl2 works, but there's
 no gurantee that that's going to be the case in the future.

 To avoid misunderstandings, this is a *poll*, not a warning of things
 to come.  As long as there's need for gtkglarea, I'll keep it arround.
 Same time goes for gtkgl2.

 TIA,

 Marcelo

----- End forwarded message -----