[sldev] Possible 3rd party contract for viewer modification

[Erik Anderson]

One of the big problems with such a service is probably that it would
require a third party to be trusted with your SL password.  It's easier to
trust a client that you own and run than it is a webservice that has unknown
security and retention policies.

On 6/22/07, Tao Takashi <tao.takashi at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> The easiest for everybody would still be if Linden Lab could provide some
> sort of web service where I can upload an asset and get a UUID back and get
> L$10 charged (IMHO) (or web textures but I guess they are way in the future)
>
>
> Next best thing would probably be an libsl bot with HTTP interface
> basically doing the same.
> I wonder how much work that would be and how much it would cost to
> implement (no time
> to learn C# right now ;-) ). I guess it's something many people might be
> happy to have as
> it sort of opens the long tail from the Real World to Second Life.
>
> -- Tao
>
> 2007/6/21, Soft Linden <soft at lindenlab.com>:
> >
> > I expect you're right! I tend to go with what I know, and a viewer
> > change is a shallow problem for me, while I'd have to learn C# and
> > libsl for the other. I'd think the same were true of many on the list.
> >
> > That said, so long as I'm convinced of the ability to deliver, I'm
> > comfortable making a connection regardless of what tools you want to
> > use. I certainly have no doubts at all as to whether the libsl
> > developers could deliver -- they've got a pretty solid track record.
> >
> >
> > On 6/20/07, 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
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