Question on new API in 2123 - "String describing the hardware and software platform"

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#21

Jeeze, Kerem, you’re so cynical for someone so young! (I have no idea how old you are…) :slight_smile:

I see the Feedback system like this –

CL Engineer #1: I’m not sure whether to add feature X or feature Y this week. I think they’d both be neat.

CL Engineer #2: Well, Y has more feature requests, let’s do that one.

CL Engineer #1: Okay!

And…

CL Engineer #1: Hey, feature Z is the most requested this week. Should we do that?

CL Engineer #2: Naw, that’s stupid. Let’s do feature T instead.

CL Engineer #1: Almost nobody requested that, but it *is* cool. Okay!

In other words, in case of a tie (what users vote on - what CL engineers want to work on) then the feature request list comes into play.

 Jay

PS - The above is a work of fiction. I have no idea how closely it relates to real life. I just know that if I had a feature request list, that’s how I’d run it. :wink:

[EDIT: Now that I think about it, that’s how I work on Outlaw. Do you think the most asked for feature has been implemented? Nope.]

#22

Hey Jay, you forgot what probably happens next… 

Weekly Incident Review & Strategy Meeting

CL Engineers #1 & #2 - Hey frontline support guys. Lets hear it. What are the whiners whining about these days… Those unappreciative sods…

CL Frontline Guy 1 - There is this [insert expletives of choice] guy…  Keeps harping about these year old bugs… Ah the nerve… 

CL Boss #2 - What? Thats only 1% of what we do. Forget it. Tell him to go write some feature requests…

CL Engineers #1 & #2 - Talking of which… We couldn’t decide which feature requests to tackle next

CL Boss #1 - Our strategic direction bla bla, competitive pressure, etc etc… Go do Graphics 2 with a side of Doorz support.

CL PR person - But but but, what about all that stuff we published on Roadmap?

All head turn to her … in unison

  • Roadmap ??? Forgot we even had it. Is it still up? Gee maybe we should take it down or something.

On that note, anyone seen any Roadmap updates of late?

#23

Someone needs to turn this thread into an off-Broadway play.

#24

I’m not really sure what is being asked for here … the complete implementation of the “feature” is:

-- Output support info to debug log print("Platform: " ..tostring(system.getInfo("model")) .." / "     ..tostring(system.getInfo("architectureInfo")) .." / "     ..tostring(system.getInfo("platformVersion")) .." / "     ..tostring(system.getInfo("GL\_RENDERER")) .." / "     ..tostring(system.getInfo("GL\_VERSION")))

As you can see it uses nothing but existing, documented API calls.  If you want to put the same info in a string and send it somewhere, you are more than welcome to do so.

#25

Perry, thanks much for this clarification. It makes all the difference to have a clear and specific answer as opposed to a blanket “Submit a feature request” response. Thank you.