Re: R: [Plib-devel] Possible problem in Frustum calculation (new release?)

[steve <sjb...@ai...>]

Bram Stolk wrote:
> Paolo Leoncini wrote:
> 
>> Please consider inserting the following patch to sg.cxx for working 
>> around
>> the subject problem:
> 
> 
> Paolo,
> 
> I would like to help you, but check out this thread:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6692659&forum_id=4479 
> 
> 
> field-of-view behaviour is tricky.
> Sometimes, you want the behaviour you implemented:
> fix one fov dimension, and set the other depending on the
> window aspect ratio.
> Sometimes, you want a fixed aspect, like steve described in the thread.
> And in other cases you may want the current plib behaviour.
> (Altough I agree that this messes up ratio's, and looks ugly).

Exactly.

Whichever you do will displease roughly 50% of developers.  We picked
one at the outset - if we change it, we'll at best upset 50% of
developers - and do nothing for the other 50% who have already worked
around the issue.  At worst, we'll upset 100% of developers because
the library changed in ways they didn't expect.

We shouldn't do this.