Mike,
Thanks very much for all you do with putting up the dependencies.
> um ok. On Dependencies
> the second paragraph (_before_ mention of the almost 3 year old .zip
> archive) clearly informs: "[..] required for
> OpenSceneGraph-2.3 and later, is maintained by Mike Weiblen, and can
> be download/browsed via svn at:"
Uh, having people log into source control to grab some headers/libs is mighty
strange; nigh unheard of. (IMHO Libs are binaries and should never go into
source control in any case.) Like many people, i skipped over the strange
mention of SVN to find the actual downloadable header/libs. The very first
mention of them is:
3rdParty_Win32binaries_2005_05_10.zip
This is the zip that people are effectively directed to.
> Also, for the convenience of folks that have difficulty access svn, I
> recently posted a .zip snapshot of the current 3rdParty. I annouced
> it on this list a day or two ago.
Yes, but that's vc8 only. I have to build both vc71 and vc8.
> Not sure why you feel you're not able to build 2.4.0.
Ultimately, by doing detective work, i was able to get closer: I grabbed the
new freetype and built it myself. But IMHO there's really no good reason to
require people to do that.
> That old 2005 .zip was preserved to support folks building older
> OSGversions, but since that audience is steadily shrinking, it should
> be marked deprecated or removed.
I wouldn't take it away quite yet, as it's the only option available for vc71
people. But you should explain about how they need to go find the freetype
source and build it themselves.
Thanks,
Ben
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