[sldev] Re: More plugin / platform harping..

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Jason Giglio wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:36 -0700, Tim Shephard wrote:
>>> "Open source Second Life add-ons still months away"
>>>
>>> http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/06/14/open-source-second-life-add-ons-still-months-away/ 
>>>
>>
>> What that article doesn't mention, is re-basing patching upon a new
>> release is *easy*... if you have access to upstream's SCM.
>
> That's irrelevant.  I can't turn a customer loose on some libsl based 
> project or even a patched client.  I'd have to bill them an hour or so 
> every two weeks when it breaks.  People don't like software that 
> breaks every two weeks.  Upgrading from the official source they could 
> handle, but relying on me to compile something for them every two 
> weeks until the end of time isn't really viable.
>

We learn that quite fast in this case. There is no simple solution at 
this time. The code, however, could be split-up as it is today. There 
are many parts of the viewer that could reside in a separate package, 
which is being subjective to a plug-in system.

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