[vos-d] WxTerangreal TaskQueue question

2007-04-04 Thread Ken Taylor
Just a quickie: Most tasks in the wx version of terangreal get added to a mainThreadTasks static queue, which is handled by wxgui's Pump (a wxTimer). However, the goToWorldTask gets added to TaskQueue::defaultTQ. What's the difference between these two mechanisms for task scheduling, and why

Re: [vos-d] bakefiles

2007-04-04 Thread Reed Hedges
Peter Amstutz wrote: Whenever I try to set up a VOS build environment on Windows, I get a sharp, throbbing headache and a strong urge to throw my chair out the window. It's difficult to understate just how big of a maintainance hassle the current build system is on Windows (whether Cygwin,

Re: [vos-d] bakefiles

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:38:11AM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote: Well, automake works fine for me in general on MinGW whenever I've used it there, but never tried it with Visual Studio or Cygwin. Of course there's always the incompatible-versions problem with the autotools. And maintaining a ton

[vos-d] Steps to start building in Mandriva 2007?

2007-04-04 Thread S Mattison
What sort of build environments do you guys use? Any particular IDE you prefer, or just KWrite/Kate? I have (GCC) 4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-3mdk). What should I get via URPMI first? Or is this all I need? I also hear that Blender's cob export saves uv's but not materials, leading to

[vos-d] s5 concurrency (design part 2)

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Amstutz
Okay, in following up with Ken's question, let me talk a little bit about s5 concurrency. Warning, long, fairly detailed writeup follows. In s4, the threading model is essentially wide open. There is a thread pool fed by the task queue, and all incoming requests, updates and notification