Hi all -- Just catching up on my email, and so I finally have a chance to read this thread. Unfortunately, it's not at all what I thought I would be about!
I'm in favor or re-organizing OSG into a clearly-defined core plus additional and optional projects, modules, file support, etc. (Call them "plugins" or "nodekits" if you want -- just optional libraries containing additional functionality.) If we simply reorganize the source code into separate repositories, that'd be great. I reiterate Robert's comments that taking something out of the core and giving it its own separate management structure and development path is almost certainly doomed to failure, as we've seen with many projects in the past. That's just something to keep in mind. While we all wish we could unburden Robert of some OSG management, few of us have the time and commitment to actually take this on. But when I think about a future "OSG 3.0" release, something that breaks backwards compatibility, what comes to mind is a lightweight shader-and object-based scene graph with the deprecated functionality removed. _This_ is what I expected this thread to be about. :-) (Additionally... Just like OSG 2.0 was an opportunity to eliminate a confusing window interface and replace it with osgViewer, easier to use and integrate, "OSG 3.0" might be a good time to tackle rewriting other confusing or difficult-to-use functionality, such as the entire system of controlling render order, for example.) But the move to fully shader- and object-based OpenGL is something we'll have to bite off at some time in the future if OSG is to remain relevant. The pace of OpenGL's change seems slow; an initial big splash at SIGGRAPH 07, then a much less dramatic re-presentation at SIGGRAPH 08. This might fool us into believing we have a lot of time. My fear is that this is coming sooner than we think, possibly too fast for OSG to keep pace? Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software LLC http://www.skew-matrix.com +1 303 859 9466 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
