Re: Retiring Virtual Planet Atlas

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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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