[osg-submissions] std:: namespace include for rand inSoftShadowMap.cpp

[Robert Osfield]

On 8/16/07, Jean-Sébastien Guay <jean-sebastien.guay at polymtl.ca> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> > It would be interesting to Poll the community to see if anyone is
> > still using VS 6.0, the same applies to IRIX.
>
> After the OS poll a few months ago I thought you had in mind to do
> some other polls, though it's easy for something like that to fall
> through the cracks...

The poll was nearly a year ago :-)

When Jose comes backonline I'll ping him about possibility of doing
polls on the new servers.

> I would expect VS6 is very rare since we seldom see any fixes related
> to it anymore (warnings and such) on the mailing list. As I said, the
> VC++Express is just so much easier, and has other advantages not just
> for compiling and using OSG. It's a more capable IDE, supports
> parallel compiles on multi-core or hyperthreaded systems, optimizes
> code better for modern architectures and for recent OS versions (XP,
> 2003), and so on.
>
> I wouldn't know for IRIX, but I remember when I used to develop on it
> about 6 years ago that I switched to gcc pretty fast, because it had
> some stdc++ problems. Even though gcc took ages to compile anything, I
> preferred that to writing non-standard and platform-specific C++. I
> expect it's gotten better, but how much I wouldn't know.

IRIX is no longer supported by SGI, so in effect its pretty dead.
Howewever, there are users still using it that I'm aware of, one must
presume that their clients too.  Can one move to g++ on these system.

For 2.2 I'm not about to entertain dropping IRIX or VS6.0 support as
we're so close to the release, and those lagacy users need a stable
base to work from if future versions won't be available.

Robert.