Hi Paul, On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Paul Martz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert -- There are large projects out there based on SceneView and > getting along just fine without osgViewer. Removing SceneView would, at > best, require them to migrate SceneView out of OSG and into their own app > (where it would continue to work, barring future incompatible changes in > OSG). And at worst, cost them an expensive port and re-verification of their > product. > > I support marking SceneView as deprecated and replaced by Renderer, but > think it would be wise to avoid changes to OSG that render SceneView > inoperable.
This has been my plan. To steadily move more functionality into osgViewer::Renderer and make SceneView redundant w.r.t modern OSG usage. SceneView needn't change too much, as CullVisitor/RenderStage/RenderBin etc. will still be in osgUtil. Once SceneView is redundant we'd need to make decision of when to move it out of the core OSG into the deprecated section of the subversion repository along with items like the old OpenFlight plugin. Prior to SceneView being moved out we'll need a period where we encourage OSG users still relying on SceneView to migrate to using osgViewer::Viewer in conjunction with osgViewer::GraphicsWindowEmbedded, as it offers the same easy ability to embed but offers a whole heap more flexibility and functionality. I would encourage this right now, as SceneView is well passed it's sell by date. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
