Jon Stockill > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > > Curt has stated the policy of only using the released version of plib > etc. > > This makes sense to me. That decision really only affects the 'crease' > in > > our models - the released version of the data cannot include them. And, > as > > you said, we miss out on the significant performance gain. Of course, > you > > can build FG with any version of plib you like. Perhaps all that is > > necessary is that we let people know that they would benefit by using > plib > > cvs, while ensuring that the released version of FG is compatible with > plib > > 1.8.3 > > I agree that the policy should be that the code will build against a > released version of plib. The question was really if there's a > compelling reason *not* to use the cvs version for a binary package, > where those downloading it don't need to worry about these dependencies. >
I think the builders of the binaries will probably use plib cvs - it's up to them, but there are obvious performance advantages and no downside, so far as I know. Some, if not all, of the 0.9.6 binaries already include the 'crease' patch. Regards, Vivian _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
