On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:45 PM, DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net>wrote:
> Now that Cygwin/X has really matured, and I'm about to roll out a much
> more straightforward means of installing the VirtualGL Client on that
> platform (stay tuned), and since the lion's share of VirtualGL users are
> no longer using vglclient anyhow, I think the time has come to
> transition away from Exceed support.
Confused about "the lion's share of VirtualGL users are no longer using
vglclient". Does that apply to Cygwin/X only or all platforms? I hope
you're not thinking of getting rid of vglclient.
> OpenText is still providing me
> with a free evaluation license of Exceed, which I will use to continue
> providing break/fix support on the VirtualGL Client for Exceed in the
> 2.3.x stable branch of VirtualGL. However, I propose to remove the
> Exceed client from the evolving 2.4 code base.
>
> Any strong objections? I know there are still some Exceed users out
> there, but there has basically been zero movement in the VirtualGL
> Client code in years anyhow. The last time a user-visible bug was
> reported and fixed in the client was 2011, and the last time a major
> feature was introduced that affected the client was 2009. All of the
> recent innovation has gone into TurboVNC instead.
>
> Pretty much the only thing that Exceed was providing that Cygwin can't
> is a means of doing remote stereo to a Windows client.
>
> If you're still using Exceed, and particularly if you're still using
> remote stereo with it, please let me know. I welcome any feedback on
> this proposal.
>
> DRC
>
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