New release?

Submitted by jendave on April 25, 2008 - 7:18am.

Developer Talk

Anyone have a problem if I create new Tao release? I have iterated all the assembly versions, fixed the problems with the Windows installer. I would like to release it in a week or so. Objections?

All clear by me (for

Submitted by StApostol on April 25, 2008 - 10:52am.

All clear by me (for Tao.OpenGl).

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Fine with

Submitted by SeaEagle1 on April 25, 2008 - 2:14pm.

Fine with me!

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Download Tao svn snapshot build
Experimental Tao rpms (OpenSUSE Build Service)

Sounds good! I hope to have

Submitted by jendave on April 25, 2008 - 2:50pm.

Sounds good! I hope to have some time early next week and create the release.

I am pretty much done with

Submitted by jendave on April 30, 2008 - 2:40pm.

I am pretty much done with the new release. Tao will now include OSX bundles for the examples and be released as a dmg file. The only thing left is the ChangeLog/NEWS/README stuff. What has changed in Tao since the last release? Here are a few things I remember:

1. Tao.Sdl - fixed SDL_overlay struct.
2. Tao.Sdl - Added non-CLS compliant methods
3. Tao.Sdl - updated to SDL 1.2.13
4. Tao.Cg - Updated to Cg 2.0
5. Added Tao.FFmpeg, Tao.FreeType, Tao.Platform.X11
6. Fixed uninstall issues with the Windows Installer.
7. Added make build system.
8. Removed prebuild from the build system (still used for GAC functionality).
9. Examples are now OSX bundles.
10. Sdl, OpenGl, Cg, FreeGlut (GLUT actually) work on OSX but the others do not have installers. OpenAl has partial support.
11. Tao.Lua - Updated to 5.1.3
12. Added TaoMediaPlayer as an example for Tao.FFmpeg.
13. Tao.Ode - updated to 0.9.

What has changed in Tao.OpenGl?

Tao.OpenGl: Optimized cold

Submitted by StApostol on May 1, 2008 - 11:03am.

Tao.OpenGl:

Optimized cold boot time, by using reflection to reduce jitted LOC.
Simplified and optimized extension loading (now works on OSX, too).
Improved call speed for functions that take typed arrays as parameters (e.g. int[], short[], etc.)
Added ref/out overloads for functions taking pointers.
Added non-CLS compliant overloads for functions with unsigned parameters (e.g. uint, ushort etc.)
Reduced the total number of overloads by simplifying the generation process.
Fixed several bugs in the typemaps (GLbool -> bool, void* (return) -> IntPtr).

That should be all. Any remaining Tao.OpenGl 1.3 programs should be very easy to port now, with only simple changes needed (some bugfixes and IntPtrs for 64bit compatibility).

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I just went through the SVN

Submitted by SeaEagle1 on May 1, 2008 - 1:17pm.

I just went through the SVN log and found a couple other things:

- NAnt build extended with install function (previously just for package building)
- pkg-config files (important for distro's! since for example OpenSUSE uses Tao.OpenGL.pc, while Debian uses tao-opengl.pc, hopefully everyone will now start using the later one)
- OpenAL EFX support
- WGl extensions repaired