Re: [Openvrml-develop] Status update

[S.K.Bose <bo...@pa...>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Braden McDaniel wrote:

> It's been a little while since we had a release; but hopefully 0.11 isn't
> too far away....
> 
> JavaScript
> ----------
> While I initially planned to make the release after incorporating
> VrmlNodePtr, I've decided to push it back a bit while I clean up the
> JavaScript stuff and remove our dependency on the private header. Once
> that's done, we'll have the option of nolonger including SpiderMonkey
> (libjs) with the OpenVRML distribution.
> 
> I am inclined to take that option; but the somewhat compelling argument
> for continuing to include it is the relative complexity of installing a
> development version of SpiderMonkey on Win32. Of course, if we include
> SpiderMonkey on those grounds, then we should also include libjpeg,
> libpng, and zlib. That would bring us up to five 3rd-party sources in our
> CVS repository--which is a nontrivial maintenance burden, and bordering on
> outright silliness (IMO) considering the mass of our distribution would
> comprise mostly dependencies. I'm interested in hearing other points of
> view on this.

How will you manage without using "js_InitArrayClass" ? If you can manage
without it then "libjs" can be excluded from openvrml distribution. In
standard SpiderMonkey distribution for windows (distributed as DLL) this
is normally a private.

> Win32 DLLs
> ----------
> I've added some macros which ought to let us build DLLs on Win32, either
> using gcc (Cygwin) or Visual C++. They are untested. I'm looking for a
> volunteer on Win32 to work with me to ensure these work as intended for
> 0.11.

Today I download up-to-date source from CVS and try to compile with VC++
6.0. But lots....lots of errors I am getting. Probably this weekend I have
to look into it again. Indeed many changes I could find since
OpenVRML-0.10 release.
 
Bose