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

Ryan Patrick O'Hara wrote:

> That brings up the question if CORBA really is the simplest thing.  The
> python bindings might make this a non issue though.

I believe that to be the case indeed. Try it !

> There are so many places to start. client-side functionality, server-side
> functionality, their apis, old Fresco ideas--kits etc.

While everything is open to discussion, I do believe there are a number
of aspects of the old architecture that were well done. The 'composition
is everything' mantra together with the use of 'kits' is one of those
things, I think.

The one thing that was questioned in particular in our last online meeting
was the ubiquitous use of CORBA (we concluded that we should try to get
CORBA out of the scene graph traversal business, and may be even replace
CORBA entirely by something else).

Doing this allows us to have much more freedom in choosing backends to
implement the scene graph, such as OSG. Thus my suggestion to try to
come up with a prototype that uses essentially two scene graph APIs:
one for the server's internal use, the other to communicate between
client and server.

Regards,
		Stefan