I think we really should start using git, or hg. With all the merging going on and the many levels of stability, it's the logical thing to do.
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Philippe (Merov) Bossut < me...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > Hi, > > If you're following @sldev-commit, you've seen a huge commit today being a > 2.0.2 update. There's a new one coming marked 2.1 with more code (parabuild > in progress before export). The whole code should be available shortly. > > However, there are issues with that branch: viewer-public contains code > newer than viewer-release and the resulting executable is, today, very > unstable. I've been crashing on Mac as soon as I login. I would not > recommend using that code base for your casual build/test. Pull that code > *only* if you're curious about the code of the new features (voice morphing > for instance). > > viewer-public will certainly be beaten back into shape in the new few days > by the viewer team (most of them working in viewer-public) and > viewer-external will follow suit at the next daily sync, as always. > > This suboptimal state of affair underlines a problem that we need to solve: > there is enough new development happening in viewer-public that this branch > can be at time unreliable. Similar unstabilities were was the reason why we > decided for instance to pause syncing Snowglobe 2.0 with viewer-external, > waiting for a complete Snowglobe 2.0 to be released. > > For new releases though (like 2.1 beta 0), this is really annoying as it > sorts of create a blur between releases and workable FLOSS code. > > As a consequence, we decided to create a clean export of that branch in a > separate svn repo. We will in the future do a similar export for all viewer > releases. > > I've been working on this today and hope to get something cleanly exported > within the next few days. > > Cheers, > - Merov > > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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