Hi Andreas, On 4/16/07, Andreas Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think that this is a very good plan.
:-)
I guess that changing from cvs to svn and getting familiar with cmake took people (like me, for instance) some time to get familiar with. Once this is done you will get more test-results. In my experience the osg svn (or cvs, as it used to be) is extremely stable (compared to other projects anyway). So maybe it would be a good idea to explicitly encourage people to use the svn-version. As you sometimes say it is usually more stable than the "stable release", because bugs get fixed in svn.
My development philosophy is to try and keep the SVN version of the OSG stable, and to fix problems that arise as soon as possible. The benefit of fixing problems quickly is that the cause of the problem is still fresh in your mind, and also relevant to people who came across the problem so will to engage in efforts to fix the problem. Also if you keep quality up then convergence towards releases is relatively quickly and painless. To achieve this you need as continous testing by as many users as you can muster, and to do this you have to keep the quality of build and execution up enough that the use of SVN is viable proposition for a wide range of users, not just bleeding edge hackers. The unified build system that is CMake is one major cornerstone in trying to ensure that the build keeps working.
One more thought: The cmake makes testing more easy because of the out-of-tree build. Its really easy now to build different versions of the osg in different folders and just set the path and the lib-dir in own projects to use it.
CMake has delivered pretty well so far. The transition of VS and Unix builds looks to have been very successful. Kudos to the contributors to the OSG's CMake build and CMake developers themselves :-)
So one test-report: This morning I updated my svn, one bug with intersection-lines went away and everything builds fine with vc (release and debug), no errors.
So we're almost ready to tag 1.9.0 then :-) Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
