[ODE] Proposal: ODE "unstable"

[Jochen Stier]

I agree with you 100% !! I have the same problem. I want to use some of the
patches, but it
takes forever to add them to the main branch. Lets try to use an
evolutionary approach to developing
the lib. Small cycles where changes get integrated and tested
immediately.... In the long run
that approach is much more effective.

Just my 2c

Jochen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Bonstead" <colin at cyan.com>
To: <ode at q12.org>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject: [ODE] Proposal: ODE "unstable"


> It seems like there hasn't been much progress on ODE lately, despite the 
> fact that there are lots of people using it and willing to submit 
> patches.  Part of this seems to be because the maintainers don't want to 
> apply any patches that aren't fully implemented, or have some bugs.  
> Instead they go into the contrib folder, or don't ever get added.  The 
> problem is, very few people are going to bother applying the patches 
> from the contrib folder, so the bugs or missing features are never going 
> to get taken care of.
> 
> What I'm proposing is having an "unstable" tree too, which has all the 
> contributions in it.  People can build that tree, fix bugs, and things 
> can eventually get promoted to the main tree.
> 
> I personally submitted a patch for trimesh preprocessing way back in 
> June of last year.  Here's the mail:
> 
> http://q12.org/pipermail/ode/2004-June/013183.html
> 
> Nothing ever happened with it, probably since I only added support for 
> it to the ccylinder collider (although any collider that doesn't have 
> support should just behave as it always has).  I can confirm this 
> optimization does work since we're using it in Myst V.
> 
> While I'm throwing things out here, I might as well also suggest that 
> ODE switch to Subversion instead of CVS.  We've been using Subversion 
> here at Cyan for almost a year with no problems, and it's WAAAY better 
> than CVS.
> 
> 
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