On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 19:33 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > On 6/15/07, Jonathan Wagner wrote: > Just a thought for the rest of the list. Now that > OpenSceneGraph-2.0 > has been released, what are the thoughts on setting that as a > "fixed" > dependency for now (i.e., future development should work on > OpenSceneGraph-2.0 ). With one of the latest patches to the > plib branch > in CVS, FlightGear still compiles with plib-1.8.4 which is > included in > many Linux distributions. I have a feeling that OSG 2 will > soon be the > version of OSG available in many Linux distributions. Having > OSG > support just _work_ would allow developers to focus on > FlightGear > without also having to keep up with the latest daily > developments in OSG. > > I think this is an excellent suggestions, and to do otherwise will be > to invite a *lot* of support headaches on ourselves when we finally do > a release based on OSG. If the average user has OSG-2.0 (or the most > recent release at the time) and we depend on features in CVS, we will > make it very difficult for non-developers to get flightgear up and > running on their systems. > > > Our approach with plib is that if we absolutely must depend on > something in cvs, we push the plib folks hard to get that into an > official release first, then we cut over and allow our code to depend > on it. This is not without headaches, but it's worked pretty well for > us in the past. > > > Regards, > > Curt.
I must agree. I haven't had a working flightgear for about a month because OSG-SVN/head quit building for me. Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
