From: Mark Acosta (macosta++at++magic-earth.com)
Date: 08/10/2000 22:32:24
Allan,
Well I don't know about a huge pent-up demand but I sure as heck could
use them right about now :-). Actually, I can see the need for 2.2 debug
libs even after 2.4 is out. Our customer base is sometimes slow to upgrade
OS versions so we'll have to support them on 2.2 for some time. Unless, of
course, 2.4 will be certified to run on older version of 6.5 which I assume
won't be the case.
I haven't had to resort to using the Performer debug libraries often,
but when I do, It's because I need them real bad.
Mark Acosta
Magic Earth LLC
-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Schaffer
To: Mark Acosta; 'info-performer '
Sent: 8/10/2000 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: Performer Debug Libraries
On Aug 10, 1:58pm, Mark Acosta wrote:
> I'm trying to do some debugging with the Performer debug
libraries
> and the ones I currently have seem to be quite old. I think they're
original
> 2.2.0 Performer release libraries. They don't work for me at all. I
need at
> least 2.2.2 debug libraries. What I want to know is, have there been
later
> releases of the Performer development CD that have newer versions of
the
> Debug libraries? If not, is there any other way to get newer versions
of the
> libraries?
Very unfortunately there isn't, the way Performer 2.2 was packaged,
in combination with the forwards & backwards binary-compatibility
requirements for the IRIX 6.5 series, has made the distribution of
"dev" updates very difficult for the Performer 2.2 series.
As you've discovered, the updates to the runtime libraries
(performer_eoe) and perfly/etc (performer_demo) have been included in
the IRIX bundles for 6.5.x, but not the static or debug libraries, or
other parts of performer_dev such as updates to the sample source
code.
But giving this some thought, there's no technical reason why the
Debug DSOs alone couldn't be updated (as opposed to the static
libraries which have many reasons why not). However it wouldn't
happen until 6.5.10 at a very optimistic minimum or more likely
6.5.11, by which time 2.4 should already be released anyways. If
there's a huge pent-up demand for updated Debug DSO's that couldn't
just be served by the release of 2.4, I'd like to hear about it.
And some good news, the things that caused these distributability
problems are much improved in 2.4, so at least we can avoid a repeat
of all this in the next series.
Allan
-- Allan Schaffer allan++at++sgi.com Silicon Graphics http://reality.sgi.com/allan
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