Hello, Since arriving at realXtend I have been working hard to help define a strategy and plan for 2009.
One of the main problems we discovered was that working with the forked LL viewer code was making our changes more and more difficult, and more and more unstable as time went on. We felt we had no choice but to undertake writing our own viewer from scratch. Right now we are in the very initial design phase, and very little has been decided except it will be Apache 2.0 licensed, and contain no code what so ever from LL. We are hopeful that this means OpenSim will allow you to work on reX and OpenSim at the same time (provided you haven't seen any LL copyrighted code). The legacy viewer will have another release, 0.5, to tidy up loose ends we feel we have left. After that we will concentrate all of 2009 on a more permanent solution: reX-Next Generation. Practically this means that some of the bugs you have filed with us will be marked "won't fix". Realistically however, the reason we are making reX-NG is that it was practically impossible to fix them in the current code-base any ways. We understand that some of you have been using reX in production environments, and we will continue to recommend reX 0.5 for real-world use. However it is our intention that reX-NG would become usable by the end of 2009. We thank you very much for your patience, and hope that you can stick with us as we make this transition to a more sound long-term direction. Cheers, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ this list: http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend realXtend home page: http://www.realxtend.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
