[sldev] Rolling a custom viewer installer?

[Able Whitman]

Wow, I feel like tonight is the Soft and Able hour... :)

On 7/2/07, Soft Linden <soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>
>
> This is a good one to ping Rob or the licensing SL alias on directly.
> I'm betting if you want to get Linden Lab's blessings on an official,
> sanctioned release though, you'd find you had to relicense some
> libraries yourself. :(
>

Just to clarify, I'm definitely not looking for an official blessing. My
only goal is to make it easier to package up a test build of the viewer that
involves more than just the viewer executable.

If I have to distribute a Zip file of loose files and provide instructions
for hacking up an existing client install, that's okay. But being able to
roll my own installer means that people who want to test my private build
(or anyone's private build for that matter) can have a convenient way of
installing a side-by-side viewer so that they can easily fallback to the
official viewer if they so choose.

Perhaps a compromise solution would be to distribute an installer which
includes all the files except for the libraries that aren't redistributable?
Then users could simply copy those missing files from their existing install
into the folder for the private build.

I don't know exactly what files can and can't be redistributed, nor do I
pretend to know the particulars of the licensing issues, so I'll CC: Rob on
this as well.

Thanks!
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