devel/gtkglarea2 gtkglarea2.spec,1.4,1.5

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 04:48 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:15:08 +0100, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> 
> > > > Author: gemi
> > > > 
> > > > Update of /cvs/extras/devel/gtkglarea2
> > > > In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv31099
> > > > 
> > > > Modified Files:
> > > > 	gtkglarea2.spec 
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > Adapted for Extras
> > > 
> > > > -URL:		http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jlof/gtkglarea/
> > > > +URL:		ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkglarea
> > > 
> > > >  %prep
> > > > -echo "
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > -Fails to build since FC2. Upstream project page is gone.
> > > > -Package owner take action, please.
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------" > /dev/null
> > > > -exit 1
> > > 
> > > So, is this still maintained somewhere?
> > 
> > I couldn't find anything like a homepage for this. Is this a reason
> > for not packaging it?
IMO, it should be packaged.

> If the project has been aborted,
Not really, gtkglarea had just become unmaintained and has more or less
"starved away".

>  there is reason to be concerned, because
> the software would be unmaintained unless somebody else picked it up.
> There has not been a release since two and a half years. Now, regardless
> of whether the software still works, please keep that in mind.

Gtkglarea2 still works and is still in use.

> The only dependency of this, "celestia", no longer needs it, but gtkglext.
Officially, gtkglarea2 has been replaced by gtkglext, but there isn't
much progress on gtkglext, too. 

AFAICT, both packages currently serve more as code hunting/harvesting
grounds but as actual packages, because none of them actually meets the
requirements of GTK/GL developers, and the general interest in GL of GTK
developers seems to be little.

All in all, I'd vote for packaging both gtkglarea2 and gtkglext.

Ralf