Hi Jordi, Yes the questions are pretty basic, but the answers may not be written anywhere...
Current realXtend server is a fork, which we have merged periodically to newest OpenSim. The merge work has been really painful so we decided to change that. Adam from Deepthink, one of the core developers of OpenSim is helping us out and he is turning realXtend server side modifications into region modules. When this work is finished, realXtend can be distributed as DLLs on top of OpenSim (Adam, correct me if I got this wrong). The realXtend team is helping Adam and Adam's team with this work and we expect to finish it before Christmas. The viewer is a fork from SL Viewer and yes the code is very different already. The realXtend team made a merge from OpenLife R15 fork of SL Viewer to get some of the newest SL features - now the viewer works well with SL again. We may do merge again when there are enough reasons to do it. However, doing merge is painful here too. The viewer became Windows-only because we didn't have enough developers to ensure cross platform compatibility from the start. We made clear decision to use only components that are cross platform so that it remains a possibility. During last summer we did work with Kripken to build the viewer for Linux - and as he said in his reply - we got quite far. That work was stopped, or at least paused to make the merge I mentioned. Now I think we continue to develop some features before we want to start to maintain builds for Linux/Mac, so I see the cross platform support coming at some point in the future. Good news is that Kirstenlee from 3DX team is currently making Mac realXtend viewer and said that she would try to make a linux build as well, but I don't know about her schedules - Klee can you comment on this? Roadmap and release schedule is changing now quite rapidly based on Scrum sprint results. Some interesting data can be found from sites.realxtend.org/yanipinion/ The next release date is undecided, but I expect we may have a release around the end of November, and definitely before Christmas. Best, Jani 2008/10/12 jordi polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I guess all these questions are pretty basic and are mentioned > everywhere in the docs but haven't find them yet. > > What it the relation between Rex server and opensim. Is it a fork? rex > contributes back to opensim from time to time? Totally unrelated code? > Will they merge in the future? > > And I guess the viewer is a fork from SLviewer. Does it merge changes > from new SL releases or the code is too different for that? > > Why the viewer become Windows-specific? SLviewer is not and Ogre3D is > not. > > Have anyone tried to make it work under Wine (Linux' Windows > emulator) ? > > Roadmap, release schedule anywhere? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
