Rock On :) On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:48 AM, BlueWall <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/18/2010 05:20 AM, Stefan Andersson wrote: > > Excellent post. So good in fact, that I will hijack it. > > > > If there are people that have tried (and failed) to use “prebuild /target > monodev” to build and work with opensim, I would be interested to hear about > it. Afaicr at some point in time (years ago, when we first introduced > prebuild) we did get it to work. > > > > /Stefan > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > *On Behalf Of *dz > *Sent:* den 14 oktober 2010 19:59 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Opensim-users] Why not a real OS > > > > Folks, > > Not to add to the religious fervor.... but there's a couple things that > are just NOT right about letting the mis-information slide. > > It's very popular for proponents of each side to wave magic metrics and > declare victory in a race that could have just begun. People don't come > to this list to ask your opinion about Linux vs.Windows IN GENERAL, they > want to know what easiest with OpenSim. > > Its extremely disappointing to me to see that discussion drown out by the > "know-it-alls" spewing their answers. > > OpenSim uses .NET as a platform, as such, If you intend to RUN OpenSim, > you can do it either as a native .NET application under windows, or on > non-windows OS using the open-source MONO environment. > > Among the advantages of using Windows servers: > Historically, it has provided better operating performance for regions. > Most of the developers seem to be prefer the Microsoft toolchain. > There are no threats of c## "subterfuge" by MS ( the risk of these > seems very small) > > Among the advantages of Mono OS independence: > Wider range of server platforms ( via OS and hardware independence ) > Like all smaller free software efforts, the best way to support it is > to USE it and make it better > > If you select MONO based server platforms, it will pay for you to do your > homework on your selection. Contrary to prior posts, many of the popular > Linux releases (UBUNTU in particular) are notorious for NOT supporting the > latest release of MONO. That is not to say that you cannot build the > latest version of MONO, but the "regular" repositories of supported software > won't have it. All religious preferences aside, If you want to pick a > linux distro with the latest and greatest MONO has to provide I would > recommend you go to the Novell SuSe distribution. > > There are always arguments on both sides of the questions that touch the > religion wars off. For me, in this project, the most telling sign that > Windows is the "preference" of the core developers is that there is still > little or no support for the MONOdevelope IDE. Make and build on Linux from > source still depends on the old-school command line tools. Lots of people > are comfortable enough with their Linux skills to cope with that > requirement.. > > Personally, I'm one of the "irrational" believers that we vote loudest > with our actions, so I pay to host linux machines for our internal OpenSim > development machines, and generally make it known I prefer NOT to pay > Microsoft whenever that option presents itself. Your Satisfaction is not > guaranteed by adopting that plan :) > > D. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing > [email protected]https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > > Prebuild was getting a little dated for monodevelop and our build system > didn't produce proper solution files for monodevelop. Therfore monodevelop > got a bad rap as being a hack, half implemented, etc. . So, I reworked our > build system a little bit, adding some patches upstream to Prebuild.exe to > provide proper solutions to our build system to support both monodevelop and > xbuild. > > Now monodevelop may be used as a fully working IDE for OpenSim, debugger > included. Also, xbuild for the command line works. And, Native git support > is slated for Monodevelop 2.6. I have never used the free VS, but this might > be a viable alternative for Windows users as well. > > Here are some notes about the updates and setting your addon-module > prebuild.xml files to work with the new system. These is also a small python > script to help with the migration. The link is here: > http://bluewallvirtual.com/node/9 . (Teravus got the search working on > opensimulator.org \o/ , I will try to update the site there with this > information when time allows. > > It is good that we are striving for platform neutrality. This allows a > person to use whatever tools are suited best for their abilities and taste. > > Thanks! > BlueWall > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > -- =================================== http://simhost.com http://osgrid.org http://twitter.com/jstallings2 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/770/a49
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