[Savannah-hackers] submission of the Maja project - savannah.gnu.org

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jdf <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: the Maja project
System name: maja
Type: GNU

Description:
Maja wants to be multi-threaded libraries for 3D applications as games or VR 
likes that is based on OpenGL (that is in fact not free software but is 
opened). The project is wrote under GNU/Linux and likes to be compatible with 
almost all systems (for now, it\'s only Linux). It is wrote with complete ISO 
C++. You could find most information about it at http://maja.tuxfamily.org; but 
sources are old and demos too (not all are still available for some time 
reasons).
Maja tries to use almost all GNU stuffs I could find and use as GNU automake, 
autoconf, libtool... otherwise, it primes on POSIX almost for multi-threading, 
and surely for other things in the future.
I have spend 2 years and half creating, studying, developping, maintening and 
making documentation for the project. Docs are not under texinfo, but uses a 
GPL component: doxygen.
Also, the libraries needs some other libraries as lib3ds (cf sourceforge) and 
surely in the future glib, gtk...
An program using these libraries will work with Maja\'s functionalities and so 
everything will be hidden to the final user.
The main lines are genericity, easyness, portability.
Tools provided are parallelism, window managing, 3D objects (as any viewable 
objects, cameras, menus, hud...), internal scheduling and so on as tools 
needed. Futures will have scenery managing and any other good stuffs. This is 
not intended only to programers as infographists, scenerist and game toolers 
will be needed for making an application threw this project.
The project is only at an earlier age, the actual version is 0.0.30 and is not 
assumed to work on all Linux stations.

One problem to my point of view is that regarding the 3D needs, graphic cards 
are not all well knows as Nvidia ones, so users may install non GNU stuff to 
reach good rates.

Other Software Required:
now:

OpenGL (we could find Mesa).
lib3ds (available at sourceforge)

future:

glib
gtk, gtkglarea, qt, qt-gl

...

nvidia drivers for end users (how to resolve it correctly ?)

Other Comments:
The project is not approved, I have not til given source code. I have wrote to 
the savannah admins for more infos (as told above).
IMPORTANT: maja as changed a lot since 6 months and was nor revealed on the 
internet; i may put newer versions on this day (23/04/2003)