Kevin Russo (russo++at++ait.nrl.navy.mil)
Fri, 3 Feb 1995 17:49:16 GMT
I notice that in the IRIX 5.2 eoe there are no Performer runtime dso
libraries, unlike some other SGI extra-cost packages such as Inventor,
ImageVision, DigitalMedia, ViewKit, C, C++, Ftn, DPS, to name a few.
This means that users of turnkey systems running just the IRIX execution
environment cannot run any Performer-based apps unless they've also
purchased the Performer developer's CD or unless the app was explicitly
compiled with the non-shared .a libraries.
Since Performer on SGIs is conquering the VisSim world, this little
omission may become more of a rude shock for customers who buy eoe seats
expecting to run canned simulation apps, then find out late in the bugetary
cycle that they need to buy Perf dev CD. True, it's a modest amount
(~ $1500, and well worth it) but it does have to be budgeted for. Or
else customers need to know that they have to ask their software
developers for a statically linked executable.
Has Performer's eoe distribution policy always been this way, and
is it going to change in the future? I'd appreciate it if someone from
SGI could clarify this for me.
Thanks.
Kevin
-- Kevin Russo russo++at++ait.nrl.navy.mil US Naval Research Lab Washington, DC
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