[Source] Library Only Releases

Rex Melton rex.melton at jeospace.net
Tue Oct 4 05:05:08 PDT 2011


Agreed. That fits our usage.


On 10/3/2011 1:16 PM, Alan Hudson wrote:
> I'd like to move Xj3D over to a library only 
> release.  This would mean dropping the current 
> installer.  It doesn't work with must 64 bit 
> systems anyways.  While it could be fixed I 
> don't have the cycles to do that.
>
> If we did this it will be very easy to return to 
> regular releases.
>
> I think this is how most people are using the 
> library now anyway.  Ie the target audience are 
> other 3D programmers and application 
> developers.  The browser installer was always a 
> convenience to gain more users.  At the time 
> there were not other standalone X3D players 
> available.  Since then many new codebases have 
> become available and are multi-platform as 
> well.  So I don't feel like the X3D community 
> will experience a big loss if we go that direction.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> If people agree then I'd like to wrap the 
> current CVS head as the final 2.0 release.  From 
> there we can change the runtime requirements to 
> Java 1.6.
>




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