[sldev] Possible 3rd party contract for viewer modification

[Laurent Laborde]

Good idea Adam.
And it could be better for some automated image upload.

e.g :  mmm ... *scratch his idea* ... Ebay auctions pics ?

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Kerunix Flan

On 6/21/07, Adam Frisby <adam at gwala.net> wrote:
> This is probably better served with a libsl based bot to be honest.
>
> Hacking up a client to do it would be messy at best and libsl already
> has appropriate asset upload functions inplace that would turn it into a
> 15 line C# application (plus libsl is easier to maintain than a custom
> viewer fork)
>
> Adam
>
> Soft Linden wrote:
> > A company with a significant in-world presence has approached Linden
> > Lab about the best way to upload a very, very large number of images
> > in Second Life. The viewer is useful for uploading small batches of
> > images, but nothing like the number they've asked about.
> >
> > To me, what would make sense would be a patch to the viewer that can
> > read image URLs from a database, grab images via curl, and post the
> > asset IDs of successful uploads back to the database. Ideally, this
> > would let them run a small farm of machines chewing through the image
> > set. I'm suggesting we propose this to them, and their likely next
> > question would be who could make such a patch to the viewer.
> >
> > If you're interested in being named, please write me off-list with
> > contact information and a paragraph or two that you'd like to be
> > passed on. I can't be a running intermediary, but I'll gladly
> > facilitate the initial connection. I'm also going to point them at our
> > developer page for a list of possible candidates:
> > http://secondlife.com/developers/listings.php?category=SoftwareDeveloper
> >
> > Also, if you're not listed above but you'd like to be, consider
> > filling out the form here. If you've had patches accepted in the past,
> > the form should be all you need in order to be listed:
> > http://secondlife.com/developers/submission.php
> >
> > I'd love to get one of our existing contributors on this. :)
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