Ada C. Dong (dong++at++Oakland.edu)
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 07:15:29 -0400 (EDT)
It's piece of cake. If you remember, I did my upgrade so easy that
almost no one in the VRlab noticed the transition.
Your problem will be the XVP to Performer 2.2. Basically speaking,
from Performer 1.2 to Performer 2.2. Performer 1.2 was the transition
version from the old styled C to C++ or object-oriented style. Many
library constants and functions were in the C{} macro format. If you want
to upgrade the VRlab systems to 6.5 and keep using XVP, this is the first
thing you need to deal with. Another possibility is to go to CAVE library
directly. The CAVE library does support BOOM, gloves, etc. Media Union has
the CAVE Library for Performer 2.2. Dave always keeps the CAVE Performer
library compatible with the current version of Performer. Besides, as
mentioned in the CAVE user's group, VRCO is considering of releasing CAVE
Library for simulator purpose without node lock.
Hope this helps.
Allan,
Is Performer 1.2 supported by the backwards-compatibility DSOs?
Thanks.
-- Ada Dong Ph.D.
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Ross Barna wrote:
> how hard would it be to port from 2.0 -> current version?
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Allan Schaffer wrote:
>
> > On Sep 4, 12:14pm, Ross Barna wrote:
> > > is performer 2.0 supported in irix 6.5?
> >
> > Yes and no.
> >
> > 2.0 is not the recommended release for 6.5 but it seems to work ok,
> > within reason. A while back I did some cursory tests with
> > plain-jane-2.0 loaded on 6.5 systems just to see if there were
> > installation conflicts (and to see whether perfly worked) and it
> > seemed fine, at least in 32-bit mode. I am doubtful that 64-bit mode
> > 2.0 would work at all in 6.5.
> >
> > IRIX 6.5 ships with performer_eoe 2.2.1, which includes backwards-
> > compatability DSOs so you can still run 2.0-based apps. That release
> > (2.2.[x]) plus patch 3229 is what I'd recommend for users running
> > IRIX 6.5.
> >
> > As one further caveat: "supported" is an overloaded term, meaning
> > "can it work" to most people, but to SGI tech support folks
> > 'supported' means "we will troubleshoot & help fix problems". I
> > would bet that if you had big problems with 2.0 on 6.5, SGI tech
> > support would simply recommend that you upgrade to 2.2[.x], since
> > many such things have been fixed.
> >
> > Allan
> >
> > --
> > Allan Schaffer allan++at++sgi.com
> > Silicon Graphics http://reality.sgi.com/allan
> >
>
> =======================================================================
> List Archives, FAQ, FTP: http://www.sgi.com/Technology/Performer/
> Submissions: info-performer++at++sgi.com
> Admin. requests: info-performer-request++at++sgi.com
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b2 on Sat Sep 05 1998 - 04:14:07 PDT