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Subject: -10- What version of IRIS Performer should I use?
Date: 16 Oct 97 00:00:01 EST
The short answer is that IRIS Performer 2.0 is the latest
all-platform release and 2.1 is the InfiniteReality (all flavors -
Onyx, Onyx2, iR Reality) release. If you are doing development for
an application targeted primarily at an InfiniteReality graphics
platform using InfiniteReality features, you should buy 2.1. You
can run 2.1 on any platform running IRIX 6.2 or later, but its only
benefit over 2.0 was features for the InfiniteReality graphics
platform.
IRIS Performer also creates and ships binary compatible bug-fix
upgrades for the execution environment of the main releases. These
maintenance releases have a third field in their number string and
are binary compatible with the base release. These upgraded
execution environments include the optimized DSOs and demo
executables and are shipped with IRIX releases and made available
for older IRIX releases through patches. The following table lists
the latest versions of our releases and the version of IRIX that
they shipped with and the corresponding patch number.
Performer Maintenance Releases:
performer_eoe shipped in IRIX available in Patch for IRIX Releases
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*** 2.0.4/2.1.2(*) 6.4 1696 6.2 and later
2.0.3/2.1.1(*) 6.3
2.0.2 1347 6.2 and later
2.0.1 6.2
(*) The 2.1.X upgrades are included as 2.1 compatibility subsystems
inside the corresponding 2.0.X version. This is done to allow upgrades
for both releases to ship inside IRIX.
(***) this is the latest maintenance version check it out!
All InfiniteReality systems (Onyx, Onyx2, ir Reality) running IRIX
6.2 or later should use IRIS Performer 2.1 (eoe and dev). Note
that Performer 2.1 was originally only officially supported on Onyx
InfiniteReality systems and is only of benefit on those system or
for doing development for those systems. Other systems and
projects not targeted at InfiniteReality should use 2.0 eoe and 2.0
dev, plus the latest eoe upgrade or patch as indicated above.
Patches available for IRIS Performer development subsystems: (also
see later section on patches)
There have are 2 patches available for the Performer 2.0
development subsystems (sample source code, header files, debug and
static libraries) that correspond to the 2.0.2 eoe maintenance
release:
patch 1392 IRIX 6.2 and later
patch 1414 for IRIX 5.3 (contains dev and eoe)
These patches are for the 2.0 development subsystems _only_. Do
not attempt to install them if running any other base release for
development.
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