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From: Marc Baaden (baaden_at_smplinux.de)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 09:59:58 CDT

John,

  the Ghost fixes were indeed incorporated in VRPN. But just before the
release of the latest VRPN there was a discussion of letting go of the
Ghost support, because a great majority of people (and presumably all
active VRPN developers) have switched to the new system/library. Although
I think that they decided to keep compatibility for now, it's probably
only a matter of time until Ghost support is definitely dropped.
Also, if the maintainers don't use Ghost, they are unlikely to test it,
and at some point Ghost-specific errors will slip in the code.

  Marc

>>> John Stone said:
>>
>> Marc,
>> Did you ever manage to get your Ghost fixes incorporated into the
>> main VRPN release? I don't remember if they got your changes in or not.
>> If they did, then I'd expect that stuff to continue to work as long as
>> they retain the ghost-based code in VRPN. In any case, I'll keep an eye
>> out for this as we update to the latest versions for VMD.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:00:44AM +0100, Marc Baaden wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi John,
>> >
>> > given the pain I went through to make our Phantom (which is still
>> > running under SGI/Ghost) work with VRPN, which then in turn worked
>> > nicely with VMD, I would very much appreciate if you could try and
>> > keep VMD "backward" compatible with older (as in 6.01/2 or so) VRPN
>> > versions in case you need to make some changes.
>> >
>> > Best wishes,
>> > Marc 

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