[opensource-dev] Viewer branches and their repositories

Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) oz at lindenlab.com
Wed Jul 17 12:52:37 PDT 2013


On 2013-07-17 13:38 , Henri Beauchamp wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm a bit confused with LL's new release process: many beta and project
> viewers are available for download as binaries on the Wiki (see:
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers )
> but there is no corresponding repositories in the mercurial (see:
> http://hg.secondlife.com/ ): in particular, I see no repository for
> the Beta and Beta Maintenance (with the new particles code) channels.

See 
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Viewer_Source_Repositories

> Also, some new features announced in the release notes of the RC channels
> for the latest releases (for example, the new UpdateAgentAppearance
> capability for SSB regions, appearaing in RC Magnum v13.07.15.278606
> release notes) are not even yet available in the corresponding viewer
> repository (for UpdateAgentAppearance, it should be in sunshine-external).
>
> I am also noticing errors and contradictions between the available code
> sources and the server release notes (e.g. RC Magnum v13.07.15.278606
> release notes advertize "Added IncrementCofVersion capability" but this
> capability is actually not enabled in the sims running this server
> release, and when I asked Nyx last Monday, at the Content User Group
> meeting, he replied this capability was abandonned: who is right ?...).
>

The Sunshine project isn't ready with their next round of viewer 
changes... they'll appear in those repos when they are closer to being 
integrated, and there will be test versions available for the viewer at 
around the same time.

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