I think it's probably missing some of the really ancient history, eg: Mid-2006: Me/JH work out chunks of the SL protocol from Ethereal dumps ... then we were told by another outside-of-SL [Rade someone?] developer that SL has its entire protocol stored in a file called 'message_template.dat' which is just a .txt file xor'd 0x43. Slightly later: We (mostly JH) write a basic client in C++ using BOOST. ... which turned out to be a complete unmitigated mess of thread crashes ... Then take 2 is written in C#/.NET and gets a lot further, a lot faster. Jan 17th-ish 2007: Darren/MW writes a simple server using libsl as the base; a lot of it is based on 'repeating' captured packet dumps in response to situations. Jan 2Xth 2007: LL releases the client code Jan 25-9th: MW releases his server emulator onto one of the forums, me & a few others are intrigued. Feb?: MW/lbsa/Gareth/me are the first committers Feb->July: We rewrite the code from scratch at least 4 times. ... settling on '0.2' which forms the basis of a lot of the current architecture ... July: SDague from IBM gets signoff to start committing code to OpenSim. ... *stuff happens* ... Today.
Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:opensim-dev- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Justin Clark-Casey > Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 2:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] How Was OpenSim "Born"? > > Len Brown wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > > > I know that the various versions of the viewer are derived from > > Linden Lab releasing the viewer source code as open source, but what > > about the server side of things? > > > > Is what we now call OpenSim the result of taking what we know > about > > the viewer and working backwards to how we presume the server pushes > the > > information to it? This would be my guess. > > > > I don't ever recall there being any releases of the early server > > source code ever made available. This thought hit me when I started > > wondering how Open Simulator originated if the Linden Lab server > source > > was never made publicly available. > > > > The Open Simulator site dist directory goes back to OpenSim 0.4 > so > > I'm a bit mystified. I started messing with OpenSim at version 0.6 > and on. > > > > Thanks for any info offered on this topic. I've been active in > > Second Life since December 2003 and am just wanting to flesh out a > bit > > of the historical side of things, when it comes to OpenSim > beginnings. > > Len, have you seen this OpenSim history wiki page? > > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/History > > If you dig up any extra information it would be very welcome on there > too. > > -- > Justin Clark-Casey (justincc) > http://justincc.org > http://twitter.com/justincc > _______________________________________________ > 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
