Subject: Re: Open Inventor for NetBSD
To: Ben <Benjamin.Wong@cc.gatech.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/06/2001 22:04:14
	Looks very good! :)
	Would you be at all interested in producing an entry for pkgsrc
	for this to allow NetBSD users easier installation?

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Ben wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Open Inventor is SGI's powerful, high-level C/C++ 3D graphics toolkit
> built on top of OpenGL. It could be compared to Microsoft's DirectX
> Retained Mode (if you're in to that kind of thing).
>
> I was looking to see if anyone had ported Open Inventor to NetBSD yet.
> I couldn't find any mention of it on the lists so I did it myself.
> You can download my changes here:
>
>     http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bbb/2001/Inventor/
>
> This port is rather preliminary since it still coredumps when trying
> to render 3D text or use a material editor. However, all other
> programs seem to work great.
>
> 	Ben
>
> P.S. This coming week I'll be in Seattle where I don't have good net
>      access so I may not be able to answer my e-mail immediately.
>
>
> --
> Benjamin.Wong@cc.gatech.edu		College of Computing
> Georgia Tech Ph.D. Student		Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
> "Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square."
>
>