[sldev] Article in LinuxWorld

[Mike]

I simply love this quote from the article:

" "I've never really worked on a C++ codebase as large and complex as  
Second Life before, so I don't have a lot of basis for comparison. But  
the codebase overall seems to reinvent a lot of wheels: It doesn't  
take advantage of existing libraries as much as it could, and the  
various subsystems are not very well abstracted from each other," says  
Callum Lerwick, an aspiring video game developer, who works with the  
Fedora project and has been developing the Second Life client for that  
distribution.   "

It sums up my feelings(and experience) perfectly. From what I've seen  
the code is archaic(to a degree) due to the fact that a large portion  
of it hasn't been updated since it was initially built(during this  
timespan, many libraries were developed that are a LOT better than  
what's in SL right now). However, I am excited that it seems  
significant work is being done in overhauling the viewer at LL. I  
think a large portion of the code can be replaced by open source  
libraries, and I hope this gets a lot of attention in the overhaul.

-- Mike
On Nov 2, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Jason Giglio wrote:

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