Michael Jones (mtj++at++babar)
Fri, 3 Feb 1995 11:05:10 -0800
: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.
True. Same in IRIX 5.3 as well.
: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.
Or else software developers need to know that they have to send
their customers 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.
It's more of a side effect than a policy. We're not tied to OS releases,
rather, we like to release "just after" OS & graphics code releases so
that we can work around or patch any problems that have been left
unfixed. We did this in 1.2 for example, to fix a significant bug in
IRIX 5.2 libc when multiprocessing.
Now that SGI has an individual light-weight patch mechanism for
OS & graphics microcode bug fixes, we no longer need to retain
this release model to assure quality. Due to this, we plan to release
the IRIS Performer DSO's with the IRIX EOE distribution in future
IRIX releases. These would be IRIS Performer 2.0 DSO's.
In the interim, if you have the need to distribute DSO-based IRIS
Performer applications to people who don't have IRIS Performer
on their machines, contact Ralph Humphries for advice. His email
address is (ralphh++at++asd.sgi.com). We'll help you make it work.
--Be seeing you, Phone:415.390.1455 Fax:415.965.2658 M/S:8U-590 Michael T. Jones Silicon Graphics, Advanced Graphics Division mtj++at++sgi.com 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mtn. View, CA 94039-7311
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