[sldev] What is the real future of Snowglobe?

[Melinda Green]

Maya Remblai wrote:
> Garmin Kawaguichi wrote:  
>   
>> After reading that and seeing the produced work and published 
>> Snowglobe 1.0, and knowing Second Life 2.0 RC is for the next weeks, 
>> I've some questions :
>>     
> That right there is the only thing that really got my attention. :P
>
> Seriously though, I'm wondering about these things myself. I wasn't in 
> on the Snowglobe project from the start, so I actually didn't know that 
> the original intent was to integrate Snowglobe's features with the main 
> viewer. I'm wondering now if that's no longer the plan, since LL hasn't 
> made any indication that Snowglobe is anything but a developer's toy. 
> Sure they made it available to the general public, but other than that 
> they haven't said what they plan to do with it, unless I missed something.
>
> Maya

The main intent was to both improve on the clumsy open-source patching 
process and to safely experiment with allowing OS contributors to make 
live changes to a part the code base. If this goes really well, then I'd 
expect them to start allowing live commits even closer to the trunk.

I wouldn't think about viewer 2.0 as a new product and Snowglobe as a 
dead-end. Instead, I'd just look at 2.0 as the trunk diverging from 
Snowglobe until (hopefully) merging back in a few months. Just how 
that's going to happen without giving poor Merov a heart attack is 
anyone's guess.

-Melinda