-------------------------------------------------- From: "ThorstenB" <bre...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:01 PM > First of all, 2.9.x are OSG developer releases (unstable). The stable > OSG release was 2.8.3 for a long time - now there's 2.8.4 (since April). > I'm not aware of major issues concerning stable OSG. > > We're checking "compile-compatibility" against OSG trunk regularly > (automatic Hudson build). When necessary, we're adapting to OSG changes > - though that will take a few weeks. Sometimes bugs are also introduced > on the OSG-side - like > http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=268 > Incidentally, I have just invested a lot of time this weekend, tracing > the specific OSG commit causing the problem and debugging it. The > problem is now identified (OSG forgot to update one of their font > plugins) and thankfully the OSG maintainer is now looking into this. > There's also a temporary patch in our tracker. > > If the black sky issue persists for some time (i.e. OSG isn't fixing the > issue themselves - which they often do, since most bugs aren't > FlightGear-specific and there are a lot of active OSG devs/testers), > then someone of us will also need to look into this. > > So, we're not "stuck in a time warp" just because there are occasional > OSG issues. But it's tiring to be a constant OSG beta-tester. Seems we > have enough own issues to take care of. Anyone volunteering though is > welcome to test OSG trunk regularly, check for new issues, trace > conflicting changes and report problems - preferably on a level which > can be reported to OSG directly. > > Indeed, I guess Tim would be happy for any help in maintaining the > FG/OSG code. And remember: you're not getting any new features just by > installing a fancy new OSG library. We'd also need someone to add new > code to FG in order to take advantage of available OSG features. > > cheers, > Thorsten
Thanks for the response, which has allayed my fears. My posting this was because there have been several postings about problems with recent versions of OSG and I had not seen much progress on this forum. I don´t have the time. or expertise, to consider getting involved with the OSG group. I appreciate that with a project with FG, which in turn depends upon other projects such as OSG etc etc there will be problems such as this. My attitude as a would be aircraft developer is that keeping up with bleeding edge has the advantage of being more future-proof, but is bound to produce such distractions. Regards Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
