Re: Module proposal: GtkGLExt for GNOME 2.22

[Andreas Røsdal <andreasr gnome org>]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le samedi 22 septembre 2007, à 13:57 +0200, Andreas Røsdal a écrit :
> > Hello!
> >
> > * Proposal: Include GtkGLExt in the GNOME developer platform.
>
> Oh, interesting.
>
> Note that it's possible that it will get rejected for the platform if it
> doesn't go in the desktop for at least one cycle, since we're quite
> strict about the platform. So maybe you should propose it for the
> desktop first?

I'd like to be pragmatic and propose the module to the release set 
which is the most appropriate. Originally, I didn't think that GtkGLExt 
should be a Desktop module, because it doesn't "provide user 
functionality". But now I see that other libraries such as GStreamer, 
gnome-doc-utils and libsoup are included in the Desktop release set as 
well - Despite being development libraries, and not providing end user 
functionality. Since GtkGLExt is a development library, and should be part 
of the infrastructure / development platform for other modules, the 
developer platform was originally the release set that I thought would be 
most appropriate.

So I'm fine with proposing GtkGLExt as a desktop module, at least for the 
first development cycle. Generally, more long-term, I think that all 
development libraries in the desktop release set should be in the 
developer platform release set, ideally.

> > However, GtkGLExt is currently unmaintained. I will volunteer to maintain
> > it if accepted as a GNOME module, and hope to work with the GNOME community
> > to make it fit in well as a GNOME module.
>
> Well, it won't be accepted if it's unmaintained. So you should do things
> the other way around: start maintaining it before it can get accepted.

I agree. Should I begin maintaining it in the GNOME infrastructure already 
now? Any suggestions about how to proceed during this development cycle 
for a "smooth" inclusion as a new module during this cycle?  :-)

> > There has also been a lot of discussion about this in bug #119189
> > "Add OpenGL support to GTK+".
>
> I gave a really quick look at the bug, and there doesn't seem to be any
> decision there. Are there any specific plans?

There are no decisions or specific plans that I know of yet.

 - Andreas