Pulling osgwMx from the v2.0 release... Comments?

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Paul Martz

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Oct 19, 2011, 8:56:14 PM10/19/11
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Hi all -- There is a new library in osgWorks called osgwMx, intended to be a new
solution for view and projection matrix management and control by various input
devices.

We're getting quite close to a v2.0 release. Unfortunately, osgwMx really isn't
ready for prime-time at the moment, and it's going to need some incompatible
changes in the near future. In fact, I'm making these changes on trunk at the
moment.

My options are:

1) Hold up the 2.0 release until the code is ready. This would also hold up the
osgBullet release.

2) Go ahead and release now, but follow-up with an incompatible osgwMx interface
change in the next few months to fix the issues I've ran into.

3) Pull osgwMx from the 2.0 release, then put out a 2.1 release in a few months
with the "new" osgwMx feature included.

#3 seems to make the most sense to me at this point, as I doubt anyone is using
osgwMx yet. If you are using osgwMx, please let me know and we can discuss.
Otherwise, I'll pull it from the v2.0 release at the end of this week and put
out another release candidate.

If we decide #3 is ok, I would remove osgwMx only on the v2.0 branch, so it
would continue to be in trunk. Also, I'd "remove" osgwMx by commenting out lines
in CMake -- the code would still be there, it just wouldn't build. This would
leave it easily accessible to any osgWorks group lurkers that might need the code.

Thanks, and sorry for the disruption.

--
-Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software
http://www.skew-matrix.com/

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