Re: [Flightgear-devel] release thoughts

[Nicolas <pr...@fr...>]

Hi,

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer a simple INSTALL file where I find
the dependance :
OSG 2.6.0 
plib 1.8.5
etc...

For the Linux distribution where the good release isn't present, we can't
provide 
a new package built by the FG community.

To day, I have my own package for OSG and PLIB.

And of course a FG/SG releaes has to be used with an official release of
OSG, Plib, etc...
(and don't use a CVS/SVN devel)

I can build also FG / SG packages :
simgear-cvs_20081117_i386.deb
simgear-dev_20081117_i386.deb


Otherwise, we will link all lib in static with FG/SG (OSG, plib, libc...
kernel ?)


Regards,

Nicolas


On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:07:16 +0100, Tim Moore <ti...@re...> wrote:
> As thoughts are turning towards a release, I wanted to bring up a couple
of
> things. This time we are depending on libraries -- OpenSceneGraph -- that
> are
> not usually built statically. They are built for dynamic linking, and
> libraries
> that implement data file loading are loaded and linked on demand
according
> to
> the file extension of the loaded model. OpenSceneGraph can be linked
> statically,
> but this seems to cause people problems -- from what I can see on the
> osg-users
> mailing list -- and would lose some of the model-loading flexibility we
> get for
> free with OSG. So, I recommend we ship the dynamically linked libraries
> with our
> binary releases and resign ourselves to doing what's necessary to make
> this work
> when FlightGear is installed. On Linux, I think it is easiest to have a
> front-end script that will set the proper library path to pick up these
> libraries.
> 
> On Linux you might think that we could blow this off and depend on the
> distributions' OpenSceneGraph package, but this is not practical.
> OpenSceneGraph
> releases come fast and furious; we will be depending on OSG 2.8, and (for
> example) my distribution of choice is still supplying 2.2. So we need to
> supply
> to proper version.
> 
> I'm happy to punt Windows and Mac issues to people who are knowledgeable
> about
> that. For Linux, should we try to build a binary release to an LSB
> standard?
> http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/lsb
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> 
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