[opensource-dev] Third party viewer policy: commencement date

[Gareth Nelson]

Don't new features get into snowglobe faster too? Thus more potential for bugs

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Morgaine
<morgaine.dinova at googlemail.com> wrote:
> At any given point in time, one viewer is more stable than another, and at
> another point in time, it's the other way around.  This is perfectly normal,
> and blanket statements about superior stability make no sense ... especially
> when they share common code! :-)
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> If anything, Snowglobe could well be more stable over time, since any bugs
> probably won't last long because they tend to get patched rapidly and a new
> tagged version released.  In contrast the official LL viewer gets released
> infrequently.
>
> One shouldn't read too much into PR or advocacy statements anyway.
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> Morgaine.
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> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Thomas Grimshaw <tom at streamsense.net>
> wrote:
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>> It's the truth. Snowglobe is unstable.
>>
>> ~Tom
>>
>> Armin Weatherwax wrote:
>> >> I am simply pointing out that they are NOT compatible with the GPL.
>> >>
>> > GPL compatible or not - the sentence "The Snowglobe Viewer [...] this
>> > viewer may be somewhat less stable than the official Second Life
>> > viewer"( http://viewerdirectory.secondlife.com/ at 2010/03/10 00:06
>> > GMT+1) is a slap into the face of anybody contributing bugfixes to the
>> > secondlife codebase.
>> >
>> > Armin
>> >
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