Dear HDRI List,
I hired a programmer friend, Helena Eydelberg-Vileshin, to port Photosphere to
wxWidgets under Windows with the intent of offering a cross-platform version.
She has nearly completed her arduous task, with just a few bugs to fix and
missing features to add. At that point, probably in the next couple of weeks,
I will take her code and port it to the other platforms.
I know how to do this on the Mac, although wxWidgets is in flux due to Apple's
abandonment of the Carbon library, but I don't know what to do for Linux. I
was thinking I could install a "virtual appliance" for one of the available
Linux systems under VMWare Fusion:
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/cat/5793?k=&sort=created
This should permit me to do the development work on my Mac, avoiding the need
for another computer or dual-boot system, but I'm open to alternative
suggestions. If I did get one of these VA's, which one would be most useful to
the community? Would I have to distribute Photosphere in source form with a
build system to reach a reasonable number of Linux users? I ask because I
still have some hopes of recovering some of my development and documentation
costs for Photosphere, which has been in the works for nearly a decade. (For
those of you who don't know, I have been distributing the Mac version for free
from www.anyhere.com, but since it is also based on Carbon, I can't go any
further with it.)
Please vote for your favorite version of Linux, clue me in to how I could
create one binary that would run on multiple Linux systems, and share your
wxWidgets experience if you have any.
Best,
-Greg
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