-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Osfield wrote: > Hi All, > > I have exchanged emails with Paul Martz about getting 2.0 out in time > for his publishing on the Quick Start Guide, should be out in the > first week of June with a final draft before this. > > So this gives 2-3 weeks to get 2.0 out the door. Yikes you might > think, and rightly so ;-) > Why is it so important to have 2.0 out when the book is released? Presumably all the features of OSG covered in the Quick Start Guide are already in OSG 1.9.x and are reasonably well tested. A download link in the book that points to 1.9.x for a few weeks can presumably point to 2.0 later. As Paul pointed out, books on software packages are often written with "prerelease" versions of the software.
> Due to this quick time frame I simply won't be able to complete all of > functionality that I wanted for 2.0, such as osgViewer, osgShadow and > osgTerrain work, this is shame, but I'd now rather have a 2.0 out in > time for the book to go, and to keep the book straight forward in > terms of referencing 2.0 binaries and source cde - otherwise you'll > end up with a book talking about something that hasn't come out yet, > and binaries that don't exist, or it ends up bogged down talking about > dev releases. > I'm assuming you mean that some things you wanted to do for e.g., osgViewer, won't be in 2.0, rather than implying that osgViewer won't be in at all! I imagine that missing features in osgViewer, not to mention the entirety of osgShadow and osgTerrain, are not relevant to the Quick Start Guide. Do you have a list of features you wanted but that won't be in in 2.0? Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTe/WeDhWHdXrDRURAhKzAKC13pj2d+IIaKIBCDU/+EcNE3vhnwCeJqQ0 thYPeqhmZiH2ZVbDRtfKXrY= =QzaV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
