On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:34:34AM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel wrote:
Il 18/04/21 11:38, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 07:29:59AM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel wrote:
>> I'm going to retire Virtual Planet Atlas (virtualplanet) because it's
no
>> more usable due to unspecified problems between GlScene/Lazarus and
>> Mesa>=20.
>>
>> See upstream tracker
https://www.ap-i.net/mantis/view.php?id=1977
> That's a real shame. Did anyone approach the Mesa developers to ask
> if there was any obvious problem with the VPA code?
>
I don't think so. Quoting upstream developer reply:
> It get worst since Mesa 20 because now it no more work with every
> graphic driver.
> The last version of Glscene/Lazarus do not change anything to the problem.
> Probably something get deprecated by the OpenGL library in the way
> Glscene handle the texture, but with no error reported it is very
> difficult to find what.
>
> Personally I no more make Linux packages for both Virtual Planet and
> Virtual Moon. So the best option is also to remove them from Fedora.
>
> I use the Windows version with Wine and it work fine, even for the
> development of new version.
He has no interest in further investigate on this, so I thought the best
approach was to retire VPA.
I tried bisecting mesa but unfortunately older versions of mesa (and
by "older" I mean anything over about a year) can no longer be
compiled with Python 3.9.
Rich.
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