[PlayerStage-Gazebo] Refactoring

[ahoward <ah...@po...>]

Hi Gazebo developers:

Nate and I are currently undertaking a major refactoring of the Gazebo
kernel (new rendering engine).  We have branched the CVS tree to minimize
interference with other developers, but expect us to merge these changes
into the main trunk fairly soon.  For those of you that have been tracking
CVS HEAD: we have decided to back out the OpenSceneGraph code, as we have
finally come to the conclusion that OSG is way more trouble than it is
worth (that's the polite way to put it).

On a related note: we would like to get another Gazebo release out before
June, incorporating a bunch of new models and the new rendering engine.
This would be a good time to dig out your old wish lists, bug lists, and
new models/patches that you never quite got around to submitting.

	Cheers,
		A + N


Andrew Howard                           email: ah...@po...
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