Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> I don't think we gain much from forking plib. *If* we have people
> interested in working on plib, those can as well ask for plib
> write access.
Maybe my explanation was a bit incomplete. The idea was not so much
about spending effort to maintain PLIB. I thought about copying PLIB
into SimGear and fix only those parts, that are actually required by
SimGear. Parts that are not used should be removed.
I thought this would be a nice basis for those people who consider
working on a transition to OSG. During this transition the scenegraph
parts of PLIB that are being replaced by OSG could be removed from the
PLIB copy as they are being mapped to OSG, those parts that that are
probably still being used after the transition, like a subset of the
keyboard/joystick-handling, remain.
One major difficulty that I experienced with PLIB are the occasional
portability issues. PLIB is a collection of several libraries of which
one has issues on platform A and another has issues on platform B. If a
copy is put into SimGear that is being reduced to those parts that are
required, we could circumvent a notable number of portability issues.
Cheers,
Martin.
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