Matt Gushee [Mon, 06 Dec 2004]:
 > Olivier Andrieu wrote:
 > 
 >  > Yes, there was some discussions about this on the GTK lists some
 >  > time ago (web archives seem to be down so I'm unable to be more
 >  > specific). I think indeed gtkglarea isn't maintained anymore and
 >  > the new widget is called GtkGLExt :
 >  >
 >  > http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/
 > 
 > 
 > Right, I noticed that, but it's not a drop-in replacement. 

that's right

 > Do you have plans to support gtkglext, or does someone else need to
 > take responsibility for that?

me, no (I know very little about OpenGL anyway, never had to use it)

 > By the way, the reason I'm concerned about this is that I'm
 > creating a LablGTK2 package for Arch Linux. For the time being, it
 > will be built without OpenGL support, but I think it's a feature
 > that many users would like to have.

Why not package gtkglarea ? If the problem is simply to locate a
tarball of gtkglarea because the homepage disappeared, just grab it
from another distro's source package (Debian, Mandrake ...)

-- 
   Olivier