[sldev] s/Second Life/Snowglobe/g

Kent Quirk (Q Linden) q at lindenlab.com
Thu May 21 06:01:43 PDT 2009


That's exactly the point of Rob's proposal. The viewer is unambiguous  
and not particularly controversial.

The rest of it is open to delightful amounts of bikeshedding. His  
proposal is to fix the viewer only for this round, and have the rest  
of the discussion later.

	Q

On May 20, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Dzonatas Sol wrote:

> Since you have already started to tackle the name change, I ask for a
> bit more thought on this path. SECOND_LIFE, and even the two letters  
> LL,
> has been known and used for all things related to the viewer (UI),
> server, render engine, and network. That has worked in general so far.
> With a variable name like VIEWERNAME, however, it is explicit to the
> viewer and maybe with the render engine and network bundled together  
> it
> implies those also. What happens when one separates the viewer (UI)  
> from
> the render engine and network parts. What do we call the render engine
> and network? Or perhaps the render engine and network is best known as
> Snowglobe and viewer is a client of Snowglobe's render engine and
> network? I hope you see this issue I bring up here.
>
> Maybe the best way to think of it is in Debian terms. What if (in  
> Debian
> world), the render engine and network code is distributed as
> libsnowglobe.so and the viewer (UI) that loads libsnowglobe is
> distributed as.... as what?  Snowglobe also? If this is fine with
> everybody then ok!
>
> If you think it needs more thought than that, maybe there needs to be
> [RENDERNAME], [NETWORKNAME], [SERVERNAME], or something else that is  
> not
> bundled into VIEWERNAME that would work when there is no UI code (i.e.
> just the shared library for a render engine and network code).
>
> Cache will be cleared after you restart Rosebud
>
> Rob Lanphier wrote:
>> ...
>> Here's my thinking on how to tackle this.  Let's do the least  
>> disruptive
>> thing for now, which is to replace the instances of [SECOND_LIFE]  
>> in the
>> "Viewer" category with [VIEWERNAME], and then make
>> [VIEWERNAME]="Snowglobe"  Since  we're not likely to change the  
>> "Second
>> Life" string for those in this release, we can leave the others
>> "SECOND_LIFE" for now.  There's a lot of bikeshed arguments about  
>> what
>> to name the other categories, but it'll be more obvious not only  
>> what to
>> name the new token but where it should be sourced from at the time  
>> that
>> we're ready to change those to other values.
>>
>> Sound reasonable?
>>
>> Rob
>>
>
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