Re: Relevant GNU software?

[Angel Jimenez]

It might overlap in the future, but I don't think it does now...

 It's a whole different philosophy. I assume (cannot take a look at it now)
it is just a scene graph over OpenGL. I.e., little more than a higher level
interface for OpenGL rendering.

 Panorama is not OpenGL-based. It could use it, but as a tool for the GUI. I
think we shouldn't try to compete with that kind of projects. There are many
of them (and some of them under GPL or similar), and they are all faster
than ours. If we want to do something similar, we should start by throwing
current code away and redesigning the whole API. But I think it is a
nonsense. If you want a radically different project, just make it another
project :-) I think there is place in the world for both approaches...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng" <address@hidden>
To: "Angel Jimenez" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Panorama Developers List" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Relevant GNU software?


> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Angel Jimenez wrote:
>
> > I don't think it overlaps any Panorama feature. It's just a realtime
> > rendering library, OpenGL-based... I suppose it's something similar to
>   ^^^^^^^^^
>   Is that not some overlap?  If they can do it faster than us, is it worth
>   a look?
>
> > SDL...
> >
> Hugh
> address@hidden
>
>