Ailuros
2004-02-06, 11:53:35
www.beyond3d.com
Our versions of the runtime have the following form: Major.Minor.Letter i.e. DirectX 9.0b
The Major changes for significant runtime changes, e.g. fundamental architectural changes and API rewrites. The Minor changes for large feature additions, e.g. the addition of 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 shader models to 8.1 from 8.0 The Letter changes for feature enablement already exposed in API, bug fixes, performance updates, etc.
Also, stop thinking of the runtime and the SDK as one thing, ie. the runtime shipped in "DirectX SDK Update (Summer 2003)" is 9.0b. This was the latest released runtime (i.e. you could get this runtime, including the developer runtime, publicly whilst the SDK was still in beta). This enables us to release the SDK on a significantly more frequent basis than runtime changes; indeed this is a current thought as it gives us a lot more flexibility to respond you're your needs. We are still trying to find a reasonable (hopefully shorter ;)) naming convention for the SDK.
Some of the confusion may be due to us shipping support for 3.0 shader models in the DirectX 9 runtime. This was specifically to reduce the amount of churn in the API. When some 3.0 hardware is produced we'll evaluate how close the API fits the hardware (there's always some tuning), and we may need to release an update - but remember the definitions, this would most likely be a "letter" change runtime release, not a "minor".
There is no DirectX 9.1 or DirectX 9.2 external release, nor are they currently planned. We will remove any internal-only project names that have slipped into the documentation and tools to help avoid potential confusion in the future.
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Our versions of the runtime have the following form: Major.Minor.Letter i.e. DirectX 9.0b
The Major changes for significant runtime changes, e.g. fundamental architectural changes and API rewrites. The Minor changes for large feature additions, e.g. the addition of 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 shader models to 8.1 from 8.0 The Letter changes for feature enablement already exposed in API, bug fixes, performance updates, etc.
Also, stop thinking of the runtime and the SDK as one thing, ie. the runtime shipped in "DirectX SDK Update (Summer 2003)" is 9.0b. This was the latest released runtime (i.e. you could get this runtime, including the developer runtime, publicly whilst the SDK was still in beta). This enables us to release the SDK on a significantly more frequent basis than runtime changes; indeed this is a current thought as it gives us a lot more flexibility to respond you're your needs. We are still trying to find a reasonable (hopefully shorter ;)) naming convention for the SDK.
Some of the confusion may be due to us shipping support for 3.0 shader models in the DirectX 9 runtime. This was specifically to reduce the amount of churn in the API. When some 3.0 hardware is produced we'll evaluate how close the API fits the hardware (there's always some tuning), and we may need to release an update - but remember the definitions, this would most likely be a "letter" change runtime release, not a "minor".
There is no DirectX 9.1 or DirectX 9.2 external release, nor are they currently planned. We will remove any internal-only project names that have slipped into the documentation and tools to help avoid potential confusion in the future.
Wenn schon woanders gepostet, Thread bitte loeschen.