[opensource-dev] Global Illumination Removed from the Future SL Viewer?

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

On 2011-12-06 21:00, Science Fiction Computer - SCi-Fi PC wrote:
> Wouldn't such forward looking graphical enhancements (no matter how buggy)
> help attract forward-looking user interest in the SL platform?

It's not a good idea for us to leave in half-finished features that 
tempt users to try them and make the viewer less reliable.   While we 
might attract a very small number of enthusiasts who don't care that the 
viewer crashes, we'll just confuse and alienate a much much larger 
number of normal users who don't know what it is, don't care, and suffer 
from the added complexity of the viewer code and consequent instability.

The viewer is open source - the enthusiasts are more than welcome 
(indeed, encouraged) to build bleeding-edge experimental features in 
third party viewers.  I stand ready to advocate for integrating those 
that prove themselves.

(by the way - please don't hijack a thread by replying to an unrelated 
message when posting to the list)