[Panorama] Re: still alive???

[Kevin Harris]

I am sending this to almost everyone, because I haven't told anyone about 
updates for quite some time (1.5 to 2 years or so).  Sorry about my reply 
going into more detail than you asked about, and for anyone who receives 
duplicates of this message.

> From: madhatter <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: still alive???
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:24:20 -0500
>
> Hi, is panorama still alive?  I can't find a source tarball anywhere, or 
> contact any developer(s).

Yup.  Panorama is still alive.  I am still working on it, as well as an old 
friend that I have recruited.  As far as a current source tarball goes, 
there isn't one available.  You can, however, check it out via CVS.  For 
more information, try http://sourceforge.net/projects/panorama.

I plan to release a new source tarball, which I have named version 0.18 (the 
previous was 0.14), and start up bug tracking as soon as I get the admin 
rights I have requested for the project (less than 2 months, hopefully).  I 
also plan to release binaries for windows (see below) at the same time. If 
you really need a source tarball soon, I could probably put one up somewhere 
on the http://panorama.sourceforge.net site (which hasn't been updated in 
ages).

If you want the bleeding (jagged, broken) edge of panorama, you can try the 
version 0.19 branch by using -rpanorama_0_19 on your CVS command line.  It 
is the current place where I am dumping my changes and adding all new 
features.  After I fix a lot of bugs there, I will bump the number up again, 
as there are a lot of changes and improvements.

I will warn everyone here, that version 0.19 is NOT backwards compatible 
with version 0.18 or previous scene files (rt format).  The new SDL is much 
easier to use, has the ability to call functions belonging to objects, type 
abstraction/conversion, and is MUCH easier to fix the parser.

If you want something more stable (for now), just use the current version in 
CVS (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=7862), which is currently version 
0.18.  It supports static compilation under Windows (MSVC++-6), although its 
image output is limited to tga (targa) files at the moment.  It does include 
a number of improvements over 0.14, although I can't remember enough about 
it to list them.

Any questions or comments are welcomed.

-Kevin-


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