Ryan,
What exactly does this mean for the realXtend project, and how different
will "reX-NG" be from rex 0.5, and will it still be somewhat backwards
compatible with OpenSim?
**
*"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."
* Ryan, exactly how will this affect browser development? Will the current
browser or the "next generation" browser still be "backwards compatible"?
Or are we "wiping the slate clean" and going off in a completely different
direction? (completely different from the direction of the OpenSim project?)
What exactly does this mean for future browser development? Are we wasting
our time with the current browser technology? Should we hold off on porting
current browser technology and hold off on future browser development until
the new "Next Gen" server backend is completed?
Will the "Next Gen" continue to have all the current features (including
commerce/currency, land sales, avatar storage, etc.)?
How different will the two codebases be? Does NexGen mean we are pulling
away from LL, or pulling away from the Opensim project?
Will OpenSim and NextGen be heading off in the same direction together?
What exactly does this mean for OpenSim and NexGen?
Mark
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Ryan McDougall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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,
>
> >
>
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