Re: [Fresco-devel] status Task 150 work out a display server prototype on top of OSG

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Nick Lewycky wrote:
> 
>> A python binding for OSG would be a good place to start then?
> 
> it's already done (using boost.python) !
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyosg

Spiffy!

>> (As an aside, I'm not proficient in python. I realize that I could 
>> learn it on the fly, but I do like using C++ whenever available. Would 
>> it be a problem to have a mix of C++ and python, especially if they 
>> can use a wonderful interface such as Boost.Python?)
> 
> not at all (as far as I'm concerned). My reason for suggesting to primarily
> use python is that it is a marvellous tool for rapid prototyping, and its
> CORBA bindings are *trivial*. You ought to forget that you are dealing with
> CORBA, really. Just try it !

Why are we using CORBA in our prototype?

That reminds me that somebody someday (me, probably) ought to write a 
C++ CORBA binding that doesn't suck.

>> Um, I'm mostly interested in drawing and picking. Not that I don't 
>> think the API doesn't need work as well, but it's not my first pick of 
>> things I'd like to work on.
> 
> our interests complement each other nicely then, it seems. Just stay
> on the server-side then, and work on implementation issues (with C++).
> 
> Anyways, we are just talking about proof-of-concept things for now,
> so it doesn't really matter what tools we use, as long as we keep it 
> simple.

True.

Which brings me back to my initial question: where do we start?

Nick