Why is Qt an especially onerous dependency? It's LGPL and pretty common.

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Rob Guglielmetti <
rob.guglielme...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed, this is awesome, even if it means turning away from qtrvu. Qt is a
> rather onerous dependency, especially to support just one program in all of
> Radiance. Most of what Schorsch has to say here is sailing over my head,
> but I'm happy to help update the CMake build system to support whatever
> ends up getting added and/or dropped here.
>
> Same for testing; any tests for scons should probably be "ported" to CMake
> and vice versa, assuming each testing framework has the the other's
> ability...
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Gregory J. Ward <gregoryjw...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> It would be great if you guys could pool resources and decide which tool
>> to advance as the standard Radiance picture viewer for Windows.  Then, we
>> could re-introduce it to the source tree and keep it up to date in future
>> releases.  Likewise for rvu, which I would prefer to be a driver connected
>> using the existing call mechanism.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Greg
>>
>> > From: Georg Mischler <schor...@schorsch.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [Radiance-dev] Winrview and Winimage sources
>> > Date: March 16, 2016 4:59:48 AM PDT
>> >
>> > Just shows that I've been away from Radiance for too long, and didn't
>> > follow closely enough what other people are doing.
>> > RadDisplay looks very nice and useful! That's the direction I wouldd
>> have
>> > liked to take the old viever in Rayfront (given the time I didn't have).
>> >
>> > But my ignorance was only a minor point in the current discussion.
>> > The real question was if it would be interesting to have a native viewer
>> > for Windows in the Radiance source repository and distribution.
>> > Everybody else has ximage, but Windows users need to find an external
>> > solution to even just look at a picture. This is about providing the
>> > most elementary basics, and not about competing with other people's
>> > more advanced tools.
>> >
>> > Winimage is very simple, and still needs fixing for robustness.
>> > It is designed to:
>> > * display hdr pictures
>> > * offer simple analysis (by calling falsecolor and friends)
>> > * store images in a small number of other formats
>> > After I tweaked the sources a bit to conform to the current C++
>> standards,
>> > it currently builds with both Visual Studio 2015 and SCons.
>> > It has no thirdparty dependencies at all.
>> >
>> > The only "basic" feature currently missing is displaying luminance
>> values
>> > by picking or hovering over the picture. I haven't checked yet how easy
>> > it would be to add this, but I expect someone would find a solution.
>> >
>> > -schorsch
>> >
>> >
>> > Am 2016-03-16 09:18, schrieb Marija Velickovic:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> There is our tool RadDisplay, which shows values when mousing over
>> >> image.
>> >> On site there is rather old version of tool, but still does basic
>> >> image exploration http://deluminaelab.com/en/raddisplay_details.html
>> >> [2]
>> >> We are preparing new version of web site, and have in some plan to
>> >> release newer version of RadDisplay soon.
>> >> Marija
>> >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Randolph M. Fritz
>> >> <rmfri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> "I miss being able to get luminance/radiance values by mousing over
>> >>> the image, though."
>> >>> Sigh. "If we had..."
>> >
>> > --
>> > Georg Mischler  --  simulations developer  --  schorsch at schorsch com
>> > +schorsch.com+  --  lighting design tools  --  http://www.schorsch.com/
>> >
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