VWR-12984 <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-12984> Water
flickers and disappears in patches
* Very annoying and high-voted bug, especially apparent in skyboxes
* Has been fixed in Snowglobe 1 half a year ago
* Fix has been ported to Snowglobe 2 this summer (see SNOW-643
<https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-643>)
* Merov ported the fix to viewer-development recently, so the code
'only' needs some review. (The change is huge, though.)
<https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-19643>
I'm not seeing this in Second Life 2.2.1 (212292) Second Life
Development - are we sure it wasn't fixed by the other (and much
simpler) water flicker fix?
In any event, nothing with a patch that large (and which affects code
shared with the simulator) counts as "low hanging fruit", however
important the problem is.
As I've mentioned before, there is an effort under way to split out the
code that is shared between viewer and simulator into its own repository
so that it can be better managed and evolved in a more coordinated way.
That should be visible in the open source within a month or so, I
think. My own opinion is that considering changes as large as this one
that affects that code should be deferred until after that change.
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