Re: FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-26 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:15 -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:38:20 -0500 > Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > > > - freeglut never implimented glut's fullscreen/game mode (so free glut > > is *not* a complete drop in replacement for original glut.) Plus > > freeglut 2.4 has the well

Re: FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-26 Thread Steve Hosgood
Steve Hosgood wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: My vote is to build it with sdl. For 99.9% of the people out there, sdl will work just fine and they won't be able to tell the difference, and for the other 0.1%, freeglut won't work anyways because they never actually implimented glut's game mode

Re: FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:38:20 -0500 Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > - freeglut never implimented glut's fullscreen/game mode (so free glut > is *not* a complete drop in replacement for original glut.) Plus > freeglut 2.4 has the well know bug that bites us. Just an odd pair of datapoints for you: 1

Re: FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Does this mean that you generally recommend using SDL for FlightGear instead of GLUT on any platform if possible ? Is there any comparison of SDL vs. GLUT with FlightGear ? On FreeBSD 'configure' currently does not detect libSDL, but if the mentioned is really your recommenda

Re: FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-25 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > My vote is to build it with sdl. For 99.9% of the people out there, sdl > will work just fine and they won't be able to tell the difference, and > for the other 0.1%, freeglut won't work anyways because they never > actually implimented glut's game mode. Does this m

Re: FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Hosgood
Curtis L. Olson wrote: My vote is to build it with sdl. For 99.9% of the people out there, sdl will work just fine and they won't be able to tell the difference, and for the other 0.1%, freeglut won't work anyways because they never actually implimented glut's game mode. Curt. SDL is indee

Re: FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Steve Hosgood wrote: Folks: There is a 0.9.10 version of FlightGear and SimGear in RPM form suitable for Fedora Core 2,3,4 on: ftp://tallyho.bc.nu/pub/steve/flightgear/ Would the main FlightGear site maintainers (and mirror-site managers) please grab these and throw them in the existing "R

FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Hosgood
Folks: There is a 0.9.10 version of FlightGear and SimGear in RPM form suitable for Fedora Core 2,3,4 on: ftp://tallyho.bc.nu/pub/steve/flightgear/ Would the main FlightGear site maintainers (and mirror-site managers) please grab these and throw them in the existing "RPMs for Fedora Core" di