I've just made a binary distro this week, and will continue to maintain and improve it. HG standalones only, no need to edit .ini files by hand, and includes an Update tool. http://www.metaverseink.com/blog/?p=21
(I thought I had sent a note, but maybe it was only to -users) Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:31:26AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: >> Surely, a single page step by step account of (at least) how to >> configure and run OpenSim is, in essence, MANDATORY. Otherwise all the hard >> work and effort on the project is absolutely worthless. If the average >> person cannot get a single stand-alone region running on their home computer >> within 5 or 10 minutes then it's all in vain. > > I'm entirely a Linux user myself, so I don't know the answer to this, > but -- there are binary distros for windows available, are there not, > for OpenSim? How friendly are they to get started? > > Next question : is there somebody in the OpenSim team who's taken on the > mantle of providing binary distros and making it easy to install? > > I'll look into it, but I might be willing to try to take up the job of > providing at least some of that for Linux builds. > > (Aside: I'm a n00b to opensim-dev. To those who haven't met me on IRC, > I'm Rob Knop, itenerant astrophysicist & computer engineer. I was a > professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt until 2007, and from 2007 > to 2009 was Prospero Linden, production operations engineer and later > server release manager for Linden Lab. I currently don't have long-term > employement, but am working with MICA (www.mica-vw.org) on N-body > simulations, and using virtual worlds as both a collaboration platform > and a visualization platform. This has naturally led me to OpenSim as > an open source server that lets us do fun things you can't do without > source code and your own servers running the code....) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
