Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 10/06/2009 10:41, Alberto Luaces wrote: It makes sense. Since this package is useless without hardware acceleration, I will have to take away my proposal until X goes accelerated. I'm not sure why you believe so. The OpenGL API is designed to be implementation-agnostic, and Mesa (which

Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
(I hope not to break the threading. I just unsubscribed from this list some days ago and just found Yaakov's reply to my mail by pure luck in the archives, so I'm using the mail provided by the archive.) First of all, I have to tell you, Yaakov, that I do really appreciate the effort you have

Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Alberto Luaces wrote: I really like X, but the issue here is the acceleration. Not having acceleration will make the Cygwin port a second class citizen, with the following consequences: Since this has come up, I should perhaps offer up a hostage to fortune and mention that I am working on

Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-10 Thread André Bleau
Hi Alberto, About OpenSceneGraph, I think you should first decide if you want it to be run through an X-Server, or not (native M$ OpenGL implementation). If you go down the X-Server road, you will not get hardware/driver acceleration for now. It may come in a future release of X11r7, as

Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-10 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hello André, El Miércoles 10 Junio 2009ES 16:09:25 André Bleau escribió: About OpenSceneGraph, I think you should first decide if you want it to be run through an X-Server, or not (native M$ OpenGL implementation).   If you go down the X-Server road, you will not get hardware/driver

Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 10/06/2009 09:38, Alberto Luaces wrote: Thank you very much for your advice. I am aiming the native OpenGL windows implementation, so I will drop the opengl requirement and I will remember to point w32api as a build requisite. OSG does all the GL extensions work, so it is fine by me to use

Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-10 Thread Alberto Luaces
El Miércoles 10 Junio 2009ES 16:59:08 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) escribió: Cygwin packages should be using *NIX APIs, particularly libraries such as this that may be used in other Cygwin programs.  Please build this for X11 if you wish to propose it for inclusion in the distro. It makes sense. Since