Hi Ben, responses inline... On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Ben Discoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks very much for all you do with putting up the dependencies. > > > um ok. On Dependencies > > the second paragraph (_before_ mention of the almost 3 year old .zip > > archive) clearly informs: "[..] required for > > OpenSceneGraph-2.3 and later, is maintained by Mike Weiblen, and can > > be download/browsed via svn at:" > > Uh, having people log into source control to grab some headers/libs is mighty > strange; nigh unheard of. (IMHO Libs are binaries and should never go into > source control in any case.) Like many people, i skipped over the strange > mention of SVN to find the actual downloadable header/libs.
Maintaining the public access to the 3rdParty stuff via svn was entirely my decision, to reduce my maintenance burden. Using Subversion's 'svn:external' property (essentially a platform-independent symbolic link), one can completely avoid having to download and integrate ever changing .zip snapshots; one single svn update can update both your source trees and their dependencies. The whole issue of stale/obsolete .zip files goes away, It's really quite nice. Making .zip snapshots effectively introduces a second layer of manual version control on top of svn. Given the choice, I personally always prefer a project's svn over their packaged .zip snapshots. Ex: I have one svn project that consists solely of empty directories and svn:external references; w/ one svn update, a dozen completely unrelated projects are synced to their current trunk. Admittedly using svn for distribution is a bit off the usual path, but we're all developers here, and I feel this is a sound idiom to pursue. > > Also, for the convenience of folks that have difficulty access svn, I > > recently posted a .zip snapshot of the current 3rdParty. I annouced > > it on this list a day or two ago. > > Yes, but that's vc8 only. I have to build both vc71 and vc8. Yep, well, I actually build the 3rdParty binaries for my own use; making them available to everyone else is a sideeffect. I no longer have access to a vc71 development system. If you do make a set of 71 binaries, I'm sure there are folks that would really appreciate access to them. > Ultimately, by doing detective work, i was able to get closer: I grabbed the > new freetype and built it myself. But IMHO there's really no good reason to > require people to do that. I assume you mean for vc71? (There is no reason for anyone to build freetype for vc8, unless there are issues I dont know about) > > That old 2005 .zip was preserved to support folks building older > > OSGversions, but since that audience is steadily shrinking, it should > > be marked deprecated or removed. > > I wouldn't take it away quite yet, as it's the only option available for vc71 > people. But you should explain about how they need to go find the freetype > source and build it themselves. May I suggest you bundle up your proposed improvements to that wiki page and send them to osg-submissions? That way Robert will be sure to see them and they wont get lost. cheers -- mew -- Mike Weiblen -- Austin Texas USA -- http://mew.cx/ _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
