Hi Lucie, On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:34 AM, lucie lemonnier <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to know what is the latest version of openscenegraph? I wanted to > know if there is a correspondence between the stable releases and the > developer releases ? The stable release 2.8.3 is it more recent than the > 2.9.6 developer release ?
The way we manage version numbers is that we a major version number, currently 2, a minor release number which is currently 8 for stable release, 9 for the developer release, and then a patch number which is 3 for the stable release (2.8.3), and 8 for the developer release (2.9.8). You can found out the release number in a console by running "osgversion", or by looking at the top of the OpenSceneGraph/CMakeLists.txt file, or look at the include/osg/Version header. The stable releases all have a even point release, while developer releases all have an odd point release. For each stable release we have make a branch for that release series, so there is a OpenSceneGraph-2.8 branch, from this branch we apply bug fixes and minor feature tweaks, and from this make the actual releases, so 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2 etc. were all, and will always be made from this branch. We typically try to maintain binary compatibility throughout the series, but sometimes don't achieve this. If binary compatibility is changes between releases then we bump the SO_VERSION number, and all the libs use this so version number to avoid dll hell. The plugins are also placed in a version osgPlugins-version directory, again to avoid loading the wrong plugin for the currently running version of the OSG. The developer series don't have a branch of their own, instead are just made off the svn/trunk when required. The 2.9.x series began it's life as soon as OpenScenGraph-2.8 was branched as I bump the version numbers as soon as I've done the branch. The developer series is all work that goes into next stable release beyond the current series, right now the next stable release series will be 3.x. Hope this helps, Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
