Skeleton Framework for Development Experimentation - Greg and Conrad

Goals

• Completed deployment setup
  • "make install" should build entire framework on Windows, Linux and Mac
• Framework works properly on 10.8
  • display and manipulate bild and STL files

Progress

March 18

• Build from source (openssl, libz, Python, numpy, Qt4, PySide, Shiboken) works on Linux
• Mac build fails for PySide, but everything else seem to work
• Windows not started yet

Alternative approach

• Try one more day to fix Mac
• If not successful, switch to prebuilt binary distributions

March 25

• "make install" will work "in 15 minutes" for Linux and Mac
  • building from source
  • QT takes a long time
  • configuration in place to use previously compiled prerequisites during "make install" to save time
  • documentation in the source tree
• Windows compilation yet to start
• TomG brought up that QT4 apparently is not as well supported as we hoped
  • OpenGL graphics window tears (not sync'ed to refresh rate) was first reported in 2006 and still not resolved
  • Initializing OpenGL still needs to be delayed into drawing routine rather than done in setup routine
  • Scooter suggests we contact Utah group to see how they handle these QT/OpenGL issues and how they plan to proceed in the future