[opensource-dev] viewer-external update

[Frans]

Thanks for the heads up Merov.
Keep up the good work. +1

Regards,
Frans

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Philippe (Merov) Bossut <
merov at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you're following @sldev-commit, you've seen a huge commit today being a
> 2.0.2 update. There's a new one coming marked 2.1 with more code (parabuild
> in progress before export). The whole code should be available shortly.
>
> However, there are issues with that branch: viewer-public contains code
> newer than viewer-release and the resulting executable is, today, very
> unstable. I've been crashing on Mac as soon as I login. I would not
> recommend using that code base for your casual build/test. Pull that code
> *only* if you're curious about the code of the new features (voice morphing
> for instance).
>
> viewer-public will certainly be beaten back into shape in the new few days
> by the viewer team (most of them working in viewer-public) and
> viewer-external will follow suit at the next daily sync, as always.
>
> This suboptimal state of affair underlines a problem that we need to solve:
> there is enough new development happening in viewer-public that this branch
> can be at time unreliable. Similar unstabilities were was the reason why we
> decided for instance to pause syncing Snowglobe 2.0 with viewer-external,
> waiting for a complete Snowglobe 2.0 to be released.
>
> For new releases though (like 2.1 beta 0), this is really annoying as it
> sorts of create a blur between releases and workable FLOSS code.
>
> As a consequence, we decided to create a clean export of that branch in a
> separate svn repo. We will in the future do a similar export for all viewer
> releases.
>
> I've been working on this today and hope to get something cleanly exported
> within the next few days.
>
> Cheers,
> - Merov
>
>
>
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Jeroen Frans
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