On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:16:32 -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote: > On 2010-03-23, at 05:50, Henri Beauchamp wrote: > > Whether or not I'll develop a v2.0 branch depends on how much work > > will be needed to revert the whole UI (yes !) to the one currently > > existing in the Cool SL Viewer (which is a (much) improved, pre-voice > > UI). > > As in, would it be easier to do that or to track the actual feature > improvements in the new viewer?
Backporting the new features of viewer 2.0 to v1.23 is extremely tedious although not impossible. I already backported the Alpha and Tattoo support to v1.23 (and I hope soon to v1.19: still a glitch to solve dealing with rendering within v1.19: it's ok for baked textures sent to the server from v1.19 but for now Alphas don't render properly in v1.19 itself), and I may also backport inventory links and the new script functions, but doing more would prove very difficult given the enormous amount of code changes that occurred between v1.23 and v2.0 (with lots of changes to the C++ objects and their API): just to give you a small idea, the diff between v1.23 and v2.0 is over 24Mb large (and that's only the diff for the .cpp, .h and main (en-us) .xml files)... With my experience of the backports I did from v1.2x viewers to v1.19 (with very significant changes as well between them since v1.19 was pre-Windlight), I can tell you it is not exactly an easy task (but it was worth maintaining v1.19 for so long since it still represents almost half of the downloads for the Cool SL Viewer, showing how many "old computer" users were left in the blue by LL with the move to Windlight). It would be easier for me to move on to v2.0 (like I did so far with the main branch of the Cool SL Viewer, moving to v1.20, then 1.21, 1.22 and 1.23), but only as long as LL doesn't break all what existed in the v1.23 UI... My free time is not infinite, by far, and reverting very large chunks of code leads to many troubles each time the official viewer is updated (for example from v2.0 to v2.1)... Henri. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
