[ITP] VirtualGL 2.6.3

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Jun 16 14:45:38 GMT 2020


On 16/06/2020 04:11, DRC via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 
> NOTE:
> As to whether the VirtualGL package should depend on Cygwin/X and
> OpenSSH, technically the vglconnect script and vglclient application,
> despite running in a Cygwin environment, could still be used with an
> external X server and SSH implementation not provided by Cygwin.  Thus,
> it's my opinion that the VirtualGL package should not depend on Cygwin/X
> and the Cygwin-provided OpenSSH package.  However, I am open to being
> convinced otherwise, particularly if there is an established precedent.

We don't make any other X clients depend on the X server, for the same 
reason, so this seems good to me.

> On 6/13/20 2:11 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 12.06.2020 22:53, DRC via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> I intend to package the client for VirtualGL, a toolkit that adds
>>> server-side GPU-accelerated OpenGL rendering capabilities to existing
>>> remote X or X proxy environments.
>>>
>>> VirtualGL is currently provided by various Linux distributions and
>>> FreeBSD:
>>> https://pkgs.org/download/virtualgl
>>> https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=VirtualGL
>>>
>>> It is licensed under the wxWidgets Library License v3.1:
>>> https://opensource.org/licenses/WXwindows
>>>
>>> Archive containing proposed package files:
>>> https://turbovnc.org/downloads/VirtualGL-cygwin.tar.bz2

Looks good to me.


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