Hi Pierre, On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Pierre Bourdin (gmail) <[email protected]> wrote: > HI all, > I agree with all of you, it is probably more convenient to have ZIP files, > but the one that is not able to open a TAR.GZ archive will probably not be > able to use Openscenegraph... > > I just wanted to point out, about those binaries for windows, that some of > the TAR.GZ are corrupted... at least the x86-vc90sp1-Debug > It is not a big issue since user can just pick up individual packages > instead of the "All_Debug" package... > But it's better to fix it. > > I've just tried the MSVC09 download at > http://www.openscenegraph.org/downloads/stable_releases/OpenSceneGraph-2.8/binaries/Windows/VisualStudio9/ >
There *was* a problem with the openscenegraph-all-2.8.0-debug.tar.gz but I beleive I fixed it. I just downloaded it and unpacked it using some version of winzip (am on other computer) without problems. What package are you having problems with and what archive tool are you using? Mattias > Pierre. > > Le jeudi 02 avril 2009 à 10:02 +0200, Mattias Helsing a écrit : > > Hi Martin, Jose-Luis Hidalgo > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Martin Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: >> A user on general pointed out that the windows binary links on >> http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Downloads >> point to the directory not the file and they can't access them. > I noticed. I can't browse the download section either. I suppose > Jose-Luis is securing the server (which is a good thing). If we can't > access the folder we should provide some other way to browse the > packages. >> >> It also seems that windows binaries are packed as .tar.gz - could we make >> them .zip? Windows users that are downloading binaries are unlikely to have >> cygwin/ming tools installed. > It is possible. But we agreed early in the packaging support > development to go with tar.gz across all platforms since few modern > archiving tools for windows doesn't support tar.gz. I recommend > http://www.7-zip.org/ > That said - windows has inbuilt support for zip archives so I can see > where you are coming from. On the other hand if you are doing > development of any kind you'll need some archiving tool sooner or > later and 7-zip is pretty good (open, support for many formats, simple > (gui and usage), small footprint). It's all I need (right now at > least). > Mattias >> >> ------------------ >> Read this topic online here: >> http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=9579#9579 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Pierre BOURDIN > I.M.E.R.I.R. > Av. Pascot BP 90443 > 66004 PERPIGNAN > tél: 04 68 56 84 95 > fax: 04 68 55 03 86 > email: [email protected] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > 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
