Hi Robert,
Frustratingly now one seems to have tried out hdr imagery in those two months either...despite all the calls for testing.
I can take part of the blame for that. I tried to show my Masters project to some co-workers a few weeks ago, and compiled it against trunk (before the push for 2.8). I saw that my *.hdr images (cubemaps, etc.) didn't load, but I didn't have any time to chase it up and so just let it drop thinking it had to be something on my end (on the assumption someone else using OSG would have posted here if it had been a real problem with OSG itself).
When the calls for testing 2.8 started, I should at the very least posted a quick note that my HDR images didn't load but I didn't have the time to look for the real cause, and suggested someone else at least try loading one HDR image. Sorry, lesson learned.
At the risk of starting another one of these subjects which don't get any concrete action... Couldn't we just put together an automated script that would try to load all the data formats that standard OSG with the bare minimum plugins is supposed to load? For example, something that would use osgconv to convert any readable image / model type to something OSG can write (I guess tiff for images and .osg for models for example). The script would thus not require any intervention, but examining / parsing the output (perhaps with OSG_NOTIFY_LEVEL=DEBUG) would reveal these kinds of bugs at the very least.
If we were really thorough, the script could even test every possible combination of reader - writer to make sure they at least read the data and write it out. Even without checking the output, the notify messages would at least flag any really serious errors like the one we just saw with the HDR loader.
We could run it right before a release as a minimal test. Apparently, we can't assume even the large number of people using OSG will be using every possible data format it supports, and automatic testing like this could give us a bit more assurance that the basics work.
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