Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> However I've downloaded the tarball and I think that the whole >> distribution is pretty dirty: >> - no autoconfiscation >> - makefiles are poor and pentium oriented >> - no main makefile > > Have you contacted upstream about it ?
No, I haven't. I don't have enough time currently. >> The advantage is the OpenGL 1.4 support while lablgtk supports 1.1 >> only. But, Mesa 5.0 is not yet in Debian. > > And will not (really) have it for a long time, since mesa 5 will not go > into XFree86 4.3.0 to be released in spring. We will have to wait a year > for XFree86 4.4.0, and then it will probably be too late for sarge. > > That said, you can alsways use Michel Daenzer's DRI CVS-trunk snapshot > packages, and get MESA 5.0 immediately. The Mesa maintainer may release mesa 5.0, according to my last contacts with him. >> So, I'm not in favour of packaging it right. It is not >> ready for packaging, really. > > Ok, but i guess telling upstream about this would maybe urge him to > improve the quality of it. He is using the official sounding camlGL > name, so he should live up to it. It seems to be developed in the shadow: the sourceforge project is empty except from the source tarball. >> > That said, you did notice my question about this on the caml list, did >> > you ? It would be interresting to know what the responce is, from both >> > them and Jacques. >> >> Yes. I'd prefer that the code be added to lablgl. >> LablGL has a higher quality. > > :))) > > And anyway, lablgl works with ocamlsdl. Yes, it does. > Let's see if there is some response from the question i aked on the caml > list. Alright. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
