Hi,

I have been lurking here for a while :)

Jonathan Freedman wrote.."This is a good thing, and does not mean the end of
libsecondlife."

I agree with Jonathan...the open source client  should make libsecondlife
easier to implement since you don't have to reverse-engineer everything now
but also creates some opportunities.

One thing that came to mind is a having libsecondlife become a cohesive
object model for alternate SL clients. libsecondlife could follow the
pattern of the relationship between the Win32 API and the .NET Framework.
Most people choose to use the .NET Framework instead of the Win32 API simply
because the framework is a lot more approachable than the API - you can
accomplish the same tasks in both cases, but faster and with fewer bugs than
when you use the API directly.

Also, just because the client is open source does not mean that everyone can
immediately start creating their own SL clients - still need to analyze,
walk through various scenarios, etc. A libsecondlife object model would go a
long way to making SL more of a platform.

-2fast
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