hi Jani -- you may be familiar with the openviewer.org project, which I and a couple other opensim folks have contributed to. I think the main issue on my mind is the 'cleanliness' of the code wrt Linden's GPL viewer code. I believe you said the intent is to create a player that can be licensed under BSD or similar, non-GPL license. If that is so, then it needs to be treated similarly to the rex server code, ie separate developers etc. If that happens, it will greatly improve the chances of both adoption and also allow opensim developers such as myself to make meaningful contributions.
You may want to take a close look at some of the latest stuff in omvlib (if you haven't already). JH has taken great pains to keep the separate licensing scenarios very clear. For instance, he is working on a meshing API that would allow you to link with either the Linden mesh library (GPL), or Dahlia Trimble's BSD-licensed mesh code we use in opensim and openviewer. In any case, it's a good project to have going, hope I can contribute -- danx0r On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Jani Pirkola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Kirstenlee Cinquetti is right now doing an effort to create a crossplatform > rexviewer, see our discussion today: > > [12:08:50] kirstenlee.cinquetti sanoo: currently im merging realextend into > a openlife type viewer which uses cmake , which in turn will produce builds > on all 3 formats > [12:09:28] kirstenlee.cinquetti sanoo: its a rather bigger job than > anticipated > [12:10:38] kirstenlee.cinquetti sanoo: and some of the Realextend code uses > LLString as opposed to std::string , this is causing a few issues as some > Rex code uses NULLS > [12:11:17] jani.pirkola sanoo: okay, do you need help? > [12:12:22] kirstenlee.cinquetti sanoo: things are fine at the moment, but i > will pass back some changes into the code which will make it a little more > portable accross the 3 platforms > [12:13:23] kirstenlee.cinquetti sanoo: at this moment its just a case of > merging and building and seeing were any major problems may lie > [12:14:26] jani.pirkola sanoo: do you mind if I post to opensim-users that > you are doing that work now? They are discussing aboout reviewer and linux > and I would like to point all the resources thay might have to you > [12:16:56] kirstenlee.cinquetti sanoo: sure you can mention it, basically > its the current openlife viewer and taking the realextend trunk and merging > step by step into a cmake based setup, hopefully when the process is > complete i can farm back the entire source which should be totally buildable > on all 3 platforms with no major issues ( other than branding ) which would > be easy to change > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ this list: http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend realXtend home page: http://www.realxtend.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
