I would like to know 2 things, as an observer. You continue to make statements like 'TPV developers' as if you speak for them all.
Secondly, I distinctly remember you saying goodbye to us all, Is this your Hi im back statement? This isn't meant to be offensive im just trying to understand where your coming from. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by Douglas Adams On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Henri Beauchamp <sl...@free.fr> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:22:25 -0400, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote: > > > On 2010-09-09 7:15, Aidan Thornton wrote: > > > On 9/8/10, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)<o...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > > >> * Take down the Snowglobe subversion repository > > > That's going to be kinda obnoxious, because it means non-Linden Labs > > > developers won't be able to look back at what was changed in > > > Snowglobe, when and why. There will still be mainstream 1.23-based > > > viewers by then unless Linden Labs does something incredibly brilliant > > > or something incredibly stupid, and they'll still have a use for the > > > Snowglobe version control history. > > > > Viewer developers should be thinking now about how to migrate to the new > > code base so that you can support your features and interfaces with the > > new underlying capabilities (and there are more coming) > > Viewer developers will not consider migrating to the viewer 2 code base > for many months, because it's simply easier for them to port the few > interesting new features of viewer 2 to viewer 1, than to redo the whole > UI of viewer 2 to match their user base expectations and needs. > > I already ported the Tattoo and Alpha wearables months ago to the Cool > VL Viewer (and most TPVs now reuse my patch), and the inventory item > links support a few weeks ago. I'll work next on multiple attachments > per point. > > With Snowglobe v1.5 as the code base and the above cited backports, > you already have a better viewer than viewer 2, with a better stability > and higher frame rates... > > > and superior stability that the new code base has. > > ROFLOL !!!! > > You are kidding, aren't you ?... If not, then please try using a good > TPV and see how many times it crashes in a week... 0 for the Cool VL > Viewer (and I'm using it every day). Fact is that TPVs got fixes that > v1.23.5 doesn't have and that makes them MUCH stabler than 1.23.5, and > v2 (which is even worst, stability-wise, than v1.23.5 !). The reason > is simple: should I crash, I trace the crash down and fix the code. > Crash gone ! > > > Eventually (and there is _no_ plan for when this will be - certainly > > longer than 3 months), it will no longer be possible for us to continue > > to support viewers based on the 1.x code base (including our own), and > > we'll stop. > > By then, all the required changes will be ported to the v1 codebase > and migrating to v2 will still be unnecessary... This could go like > that for at least one or even two years before the backports become > too cumbersome to be worth staying with v1. I know it first hand, > since I did just that with the Cool VL Viewer v1.19. > > > Well before this happens, we'll have a public discussion > > about it, and about what must be supported to remain compatible. If you > > have moved to and stayed reasonably current with the 2.x code base, then > > it will be a non-event for you. > > Again, TPV developers are not going to bother with v2 unless YOU, Linden > Lab, change your stance on the UI and do accept reversals to the v1 way, > where needed. > > 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 >
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