[Pfspd-users@sf.net] Platform support for PV

[Bram R. <bra...@ph...>]

Dear PV users,

We are currently in the process to migrate PV from wxWindows 2.4.0 to 
wxWidgets 2.6.2.
(wxWidgets is the new name for wxWindows). This transistion is essential 
for some
bug fixes; in a couple of cases, PV suffers from low level bugs in 
wxWidgets/GTK.

We find ourselves in the situation that compiling wxWidgets is 
increasingly difficult
on some older platforms. Since wxWidgets is built on top of GTK, we also 
need a
GTK 2.x version on all platforms. Our computer support department (COS) 
did an
attempt to get this available, but they are about to give up...
This is partly motivated by the required effort, and partly by their 
platform support policies.

Up till now, we were used to provide pre-compiled executables on the 
following platforms:
sgi/irix, sun/solaris, hp/hp-ux, linux, windows, and cygwin.

We now propose to cease support of the "older" *nixes (sgi, sun, hp) and 
keep only:
linux, windows, and cygwin.

For the high tech campus and research environments, the PV command will 
remain
available via the queing system (in other words, entering "pv" on a sgi 
system will
start the pv tool in a linux queue). This will provide a solution for 
shared/networked
file systems; not for sgi-local file systems.

If you feel to encouter serious limitations by this move, please let me 
know.

Kind regards, Bram.

PS. This only holds for PV viewer. The cpfspd library remains available.

--
A.K. (Bram) Riemens
Principal Scientist, DSP group, Philips Research
Office: WO-p-94, Postbox WO02
High Tech Campus 36 (WO), 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 40 27 43833, Fax: +31 40 27 44675
E-mail: bra...@ph...