AJ MacLeod > On Thursday 06 April 2006 10:21, Martin Spott wrote: > > this is now going to be the third release in a row that relies on PLIB > > CVS, I find this is a bit unsatisfactory. > I've been building CVS with plib-1.8.4 (the last release) for ages with no > particular problems, so I'm not sure it's true to say that we _rely_ on > PLIB > CVS. This is not to detract completely from your point though... > > > On the other side people are > > waiting endlessly to get patches incorporated into PLIB. > That seems to be true. I'm personally using Tiago's texture compression > patch > with 1.8.4 and it is the sort of thing that would have been applied almost > immediately were it part of simgear, say. > > We should also bear in mind the possibility that PLIB might not be the > most > suitable platform for fgfs in the future and that migration to OSG would > be > an option. However, I'm not a coder and other than having played about > with > some fairly inspiring (visually) OSG applications, I have no really valid > opinion on that matter; that would almost certainly be post-1.0 anyway I > would imagine? >
I think that this provides a sensible migration route to OSG, if that is the way we are going, otherwise it seems a good proposal in its own right. Apart from the number of updates required (small) I can't see a downside. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
