Hi Jacob, I can't help too much with management decisions, but I would suggest that OSG-1.2 is less mature, less robust, less supportable and would not recommend that any new projects adopt it as a base - OSG-2.8.x is far more mature, debugged and far better supported, not to mention far better feature set. I would consider using OSG-1.2 over OSG-2.8 a project liability, and one that you may well have to carry for a long time going forward.
I would further add that OSG-1.2 is no longer supported by myself or members of the community. I haven't personally been anywhere near the OSG-1.2 for several years. I like most of the OSG community are working on the OSG-2.x branch now. If you want to use OSG-1.2 then you are pretty well on your own w.r.t support/bug fixes. Moving from OSG-1.2 to OSG-2.x should be straight forward and will reduce your project risks now and going forward. Robert. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Jacob Armstrong <jaco...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks again to everyone for their help with these questions. I've got a > much better understanding of what's going on based on your feedback and > information that was just presented to me yesterday by management. It turns > out that the process I'm trying to implement now was designed over 2 years > ago (right about when we were supposed to be receiving the OpenFlight data > from our customer). The design was based on OSG-1.2, and VPBMaster wasn't > even a twinkle in OSG's eye, if you will. By the time we received the > OpenFlight data (June of this year), the engineer-in-charge of the process > picked his design back up and began modifying his conversion tool to match > some unexpected input from the data. Part of this re-design was accounting a > 1000 x 1000 km DB, when we were expecting it to be 500 x 500 km. > Unfortunately, he didn't foresee the issues we're having with Process Time > and Data Storage back then. Now we're paying for it with program dollars, > and I'm paying for it with a few gray hairs. I think it's obvious that > VBPMaster is the tool for this job, but I don't think it's likely that I > will get approvable to upgrade our version of OSG, get VPBMaster, and then > "test" our process using these new tools. It's just too "risky" of a move > this late in the game. I'm presenting these issues to management today, and > I believe they will make the decision to lower the resolution over the > entire database and re-run the process. I guess I just work for an > old-school-minded company that's afraid of drastic or sudden change :). > Anyway, thanks again to everyone for your input! It's greatly appreciated! > > > > >> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:11:52 +0000 >> From: robert.osfi...@gmail.com >> To: osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >> Subject: Re: [osg-users] Setting up VPBMaster >> >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson >> <xe...@alphapixel.com> wrote: >> > Well, I don't know that the "development team for OpenSceneGraph" is a >> > clearly defined >> > set. By volume, Robert is the author of the vast majority of the OSG >> > source code, but >> > there's a long list of other contributors as well. >> >> I'm not quite as prolific as Chris makes out ;-) I'm the lead author >> of the of the core libosg, libosgUtil, osgDB, osgViewer and a few of >> the NodeKits, but far this is far from the majority of the OSG source >> code, the majority of the OSG code base is actually found in the >> plugins which are predominantly work of the community and this is no >> small feat. At last count we had 390 contributors, guess we might >> even get to the big 400 contributors, before with hit 3.0. >> >> Robert. >> _______________________________________________ >> osg-users mailing list >> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > ________________________________ > Bing brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. Try it now. > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
