Ben YOU can update the Wiki page if you think it wrong..... and place the correct info up there it is a wiki after all ;)
I have disagree with your view that binaries should never go into source control. I believe having 3rdparty files that do not typically change are perfect candidates for source control and we follow that doctrine at work and its a system that is well proven and works well, ( for us ) and have seen the same usage many times __________________________________________________________ Gordon Tomlinson Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM/AIM : gordon3dBrit MSN IM : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : www.vis-sim.com www.gordontomlinson.com __________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Discoe Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:31 AM To: 'OpenSceneGraph Users' Subject: Re: [osg-users] Can't build OSG 2.4 on Windows following GettingStarted guide 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 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
