Hi Jeff,
We are in the process of doing an IRIX release as we speak. Because
of licensing issues, we haven't been able to "open source" the IRIX
version, only provide it via the developer's program (which is "free"
for the base membership). Stay tuned for more information for when
it will be available. (By the way, which IRIX devices are you most
interested in working with?)
[The current dmsdk on the developer's program is a bit outdated,
as it was the first non-NT release. And since then, OpenML has
become a reality.]
In regards to IFL, yes, there has been lots of enthusiasm about
providing it open source (or at least "ported" to linux). But it
needs to be "adopted" by someone to work through the source code to
insure that it doesn't contain any proprietary code that we can
not legally open source, and to do the actual work of making it
happen. This is an unbelievable amount to work.
But you are, by far not alone. That is probably up there as #1 or #2
for "most wanted libraries". So I'd assume that it will see the
light of day. And more requests by customers will certainly help
make it sooner!
Regards,
Mike
Jeff Hameluck writes:
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> So, my question is... how do I get this dmSDK on IRIX? Is it not quite
> avilable and the press release and overview are just hype and it's only
> on Linux for the time being? If so, what's the timeframe for IRIX? Or
> is it already an SGI product that we can install but it's not the
> dmedia_dev package? The tarball definitely doesn't want to compile on
> IRIX out of the box as the FAQ says.
>
> And as an aside... anyone reading this involved in Open Source at SGI
> know if SGI has ever given any thought to releasing IFL (The Image
> Format Library) Open Source? Not Image Vision (the image processing
> thing), just IFL (to read and write various image formats). We've
> ridden SGIs produt strategy and I've used IFL for our stuff under IRIX
> and under NT and now that SGI's jumped over to Linux (as we have) I felt
> a little boned because the same effort SGI put into porting/building
> SDKs for their big NT push wasn't put into porting libraries like IFL to
> Linux even though they'd be dead simple compared to porting to NT.
> We've brought it up to our sales rep here but being in New Zealand, it
> seemed to fall on deaf ears. IFL on Linux! It'd be a good thing!
>
> Jeff Hameluck
> Weta Digital
> Wellington, New Zealand
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