Don is currently refactoring Producer distribution, he's not keeping the OSG community well informed, or being mindful of the fallout on the OSG side. This is a troubling development, not so much the ideas behind the refactoring but the manner that this work is being carried, being deliberately divisive, driving a wedge into the heart of the OSG project, forcing the core OSG to be refactored just to keep things compiling sensibly.
I am deeply troubled and saddened by this development.
With the stance that Don is taking on Producer and ProducerOSG it looks like I'll need either to split osgProducer and all associated example out into their own distribution (to avoid the newly introduced OSG-Producer circular dependency), or for us to branch Producer in version prior to this week changes and just use that in conjunction with the OpenSceneGraph in future.
I am currently overwhelmed with other work so taking on massive refactoring of the OSG distribution is not something I can do right now. Such refactoring would also require sweeping changes to Visual Studio and XCode projects so we are likely to see the build on the OSG go under significant instability for a couple of days. I'll not undertake such changes without good prior warning, as I'll need the communities help to get things working again once things are refactored.
Right now I have to recommend that OSG CVS users refrain from doing CVS updates on Producer, at least until Producer changes have settled down, and we can put into place a strategy for migrating the OSG to this new way of Producer, or simply by branching it.
Robert.
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