Hi All, To me it's looks like we are consistently getting a lot more support queries about the Collada plugin than any other our plugins. Build problems are rampant, and alas there isn't that much we can do about it directly. The Collada DOM does cause lots of problems for us, and they are problems that hasn't got fixed as time has moved on, at best one problem has been solved only to replaced by others. Collada DOM has always been troublesome, and it looks like it always will be.
I'm not familiar with the Collada format itself, rather I have always just been a maintainer of the OSG that relies on others for development and support of the Collada plugin, but I do wonder just how much value we get from using the DOM rather than rolling our own xml parsing. The vast majority of our other plugins implement their own ascii/binary file parsing and we're able to maintain them just fine. It is of course more work for us to implement the file reading/write in the short term so it'd be a case of short term pain for long term gain. Thoughts on how much work this might be to do? Thoughts on what features of the Collada DOM that are invaluable/hard to replace? Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
