Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3AD36F13.EA650143@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:37:39 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd , Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Sayle CC: Andre Bleau , Cygwin Mailing List , Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: GL/gl.h in w32api References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Roger Sayle wrote: > > > > Is there any reason why the include files in the opengl package > > > shouldn't be moved to the w32api package? > > > > > > > Yes! The opengl headers belong with the opengl package not the w32api > > package. The maintainers of w32api don't maintain opengl and vice versa > > so we would never be able to complete a new distribution of the w32api > > package. > > The mainainers of w32api do maintain a significant subset of opengl, > namely the libraries opengl32.a, libglaux.a, libglu32.a, libglut.a > and libglut32.a. Indeed, listed in the noteworthy changes documentation > for w32api 0.1.2 is "Added the Win32 extensions for OpenGL". > > Doesn't it seem strange that the entry points for the import libraries > and the headers describing them are maintained in different packages. > Microsoft include both the OpenGL headers and libraries in their WIN32 > SDK. And I'll guess that most other w32api libraries are described by > w32api header files. > I would accept a "clean room" implementation of the Microsoft OpenGL headers and import libraries. A clean room implementation is where you use only related documentation to create the files. I however will not be doing this myself. This discussion is also pertinent to MinGW so I've cross posted. Earnie. P.S.: There is no need to include my personal email in the discussion. I'm on both lists. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple