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authorBrian Paul <[email protected]>2012-04-19 08:56:02 -0600
committerBrian Paul <[email protected]>2012-04-19 11:22:47 -0600
commitf64bae2e2a4181a6e9b0890e178b96b9bd3a00ae (patch)
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parent0e5327ecf49744f620b0a73b8780ad5dbb74eeb6 (diff)
docs: freshen up the download/unpack instructions
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@@ -20,26 +20,12 @@ When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
</p>
+<H1>Unpacking</H1>
+
<p>
-The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z
-is the version. There are three types of compressed archives.
-</p>
-<p>
-In the past, there was also MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which
-contained Mark Kilgard's GLUT library.
-Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut).
-</p>
-<p>
-In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as
-MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}.
-Now, the
-<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">
-Mesa demos</a> are distributed separately.
+Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
</p>
-
-<H1>Unpacking</H1>
-
<p>
To unpack .tar.gz files:
</p>
@@ -86,10 +72,6 @@ src/glu - libGLU source code
src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
</pre>
-If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.x.y.z package:
-<pre>
-src/glut - GLUT library source code
-</pre>
<p>
Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
@@ -97,5 +79,24 @@ instructions</a>.
</p>
+<H1>Demos and GLUT</H2>
+
+<p>
+A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/" target="_parent">here</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Mesa demos collection is available
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">here</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the past, GLUT and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
+Mesa releases. But since GLUT and the demos change infrequently, they
+were split off some time ago.
+</p>
+
+
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