[sldev] sljirastats.com Linden Metrics Report

[Jesse Barnett]

On 4/18/08, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
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> I can understand LL's reluctance to tackle the job. I can understand any
> individual developer's reluctance to try to do it (HELL, I have no idea
> where to begin), but that the development community remains almost mute on
> this topic while squabbling over the superficial stuff, just reveals that
> the SL developers community really is clueless about the fundamental issue
> here--or is being hypocritical in their condemnation of LL.
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> Why are only a handful of us screaming about this issue? Why isn't it the
> number one priority raised over and over again in Open Source meetings,
> SLDEV messages, etc? It impacts everything from frame rate, to memory leaks,
> to GUI extensibility, to who-knows-what.
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> I mean really, guys. Refactoring the GUI is Job Number 1. The Lindens are
> afraid to tackle it. You guys bury your heads in the sand. If nothing is
> done, the situation will only get worse and the list of bug-fixes awaiting
> integration will grow ever longer because dependencies on the GUI and other
> subsystems will continue to bite every bug-fix attempt.
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> Lawson


Actually it was discussed extensively the first few weeks of SLDev &
Rob coming on board in iirc
and meetings under the umbrella of plugin architecture. I would imagine that
the concensus has'nt changed from that time. Yes, it is a serious problem
and yes, it should be done, but no, no one wants to tackle that beast and it
is more expidient to just create sockets that interface the jumbled mess in
the backend for the plugins to go. You hit the nail on the head with this :
"I can understand any individual developer's reluctance to try to do it
(HELL, I have no idea where to begin),"  It isn't just a matter of
refactoring the GUI, the GUI is everywhere and would involve a major rewrite
of ALL the code. The code sucks and everyone in the community and the
Lindens know it sucks but continually hammering to get someone, anyone to
rewrite it isn't going to be very productive.

Jesse
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