Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Andy Ross wrote: > > Look, the points wasn't that plib is great. The point wasn't that > > OSG has no advantages. > > I'll just jump in here with a couple quick comments. OSG does have > advantages that we should be able to realize pretty quickly, it is not > completely without advantages. Let's have a little patience before we > jump too far to conclusions.
I, er, don't think you interpreted what I wrote correctly; check the double negative. :) And sure, patience is good and panic is bad. But at the same time: recognize that patience is limited, and there's a point at which panic is justified. It's already been almost two weeks since the OSG code started going in, and there still remain many issues. Performance under windows (but not linux, at least not my box) has suffered a serious 20-50% regression that can't be ignored. Several aircraft look just awful right now due to missing features. FlightGear can't be built easily by non-coders (at least those who can apply a patch to a CVS checkout) and can't be run at all on a system with OSG already installed (again, by a regular user). These are all regressions, not just bugs. They are things (important things, often) that used to work. Now, no one understands better than I do that you can't improve things without breaking stuff sometimes. But there's a limit. Stuff that's broken needs to be fixed, and it needs to be fixed very soon. The masses are restive out there. Honestly: I would have suggested putting the OSG code (and not the plib fallback) into a CVS branch and working on it as an experiment for a while. Doing in on the head* was too much breakage to absorb cleanly. Andy * And especially then trying to refuse new features on the plib branch, which is what got me into this fight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
