Re: [Update REQ 6725]: Comments on your Software

[Stuart Levy <slevy at geom.umn.edu>]

Thanks for your note.

Hardware-accelerated OpenGL X servers for PC hardware under Linux are just
on the verge of becoming available -- both Metrolink and X Inside Graphics
have announced intention to release some over the next few months.  I agree
that depending on PC hardware for fast, inexpensive 3D graphics is the way
to go, but I personally hope to see that happen within the free-software/Unix
community rather than under anything controlled by Microsoft.

Another big problem with porting geomview to windows: it's a lot of work,
and the Geometry Center funding that had supported Geomview development
no longer exists, since the Center has closed.

Rebuilding geomview to use a different OpenGL library under Linux
is easy enough to get done in somebody's spare time, but not so for
a port to a different operating system, even if it could greatly
increase geomview's popularity.  Although I don't know about other developers'
plans, it's not something I intend to work on.

  Stuart Levy, (no longer of the) Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
   slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu