[opensource-dev] On Live, SL via Cloud Computing

2010-10-27 Thread Stickman
Had a thought, figured I'd share it in case someone with authority wanted to explore the topic. On Live (http://www.onlive.com/) is a cloud computing gaming service. You open up the client and their computers run the game and graphics and stream the video to you while accepting your controls. It m

Re: [opensource-dev] LGPL violation

2010-10-27 Thread Sythos
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:38:55 +0200 Altair "Sythos" Memo wrote: > yu can put in a DLL all the code, LGPL allow you to do, bu you shoudl > release the LGPL part of code (not the piece yours or under other > license), you must release the LGPL code of DLL, not all please... turn on your typonese t

Re: [opensource-dev] LGPL violation

2010-10-27 Thread Sythos
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:38:32 -0400 Malachi wrote: > does this mean that if i move all of my own code over to a dll file > that is loaded at runtime that i do not have to release the source > for it? uhm... both no and yes yu can put in a DLL all the code, LGPL allow you to do, bu you shoudl rel

Re: [opensource-dev] Files deleted by uninstaller don't appear in Recycle Bin

2010-10-27 Thread Zabb65
My only concern with some of this, is that it eliminates the support teams easy one line answer to everything odd or unexplained. Uninstall and reinstall the client. The reason this works so well is that it deletes all of the users settings and preferences, which often become corrupted or contain i

Re: [opensource-dev] Files deleted by uninstaller don't appear in Recycle Bin

2010-10-27 Thread Da5id Kronfeld
On 2010-10-27, at 7:45 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > Au contraire. Some people get very upset when an installer leaves any files > behind that were created by the program automatically, such as log files. > It's simply not true that the uninstaller shouldn't remove anything in the > profi

Re: [opensource-dev] Files deleted by uninstaller

2010-10-27 Thread Daniel
Chat and IM logs are a user preference setting. If logging is turned on, the implication is the user wants the logs, and that preference should not be overridden without notice. Also, SL users are not working for a company in a business situation. It's a social virtual world, and chat logs rep

Re: [opensource-dev] Files deleted by uninstaller don't appear in Recycle Bin

2010-10-27 Thread SuezanneC Baskerville
Our chat logs are our baby pictures, our precious documents, our financial records. They are our love letters, our records of meeting our friends, our graduation diplomas, our birth certificates, our immunization records, our green cards. For an uninstall program to delete them is a good bit lik

[opensource-dev] Friday Sprint Review Meeting - Canceled

2010-10-27 Thread Sarah (Esbee) Hutchinson
Just a quick note to let you know I'm canceling the Sprint Review Meeting scheduled for this Friday at 8am PT. We didn't introduce a pile of new features this Sprint and have been mostly focused on stablization and crashers. I've also not made enough progress on Preferences design and requirements

Re: [opensource-dev] Files deleted by uninstaller don't appear in Recycle Bin

2010-10-27 Thread Kent Quirk (Q Linden)
Au contraire. Some people get very upset when an installer leaves any files behind that were created by the program automatically, such as log files. It's simply not true that the uninstaller shouldn't remove anything in the profile -- I have worked at multiple companies where leaving behind any

Re: [opensource-dev] LGPL violation

2010-10-27 Thread Malachi
does this mean that if i move all of my own code over to a dll file that is loaded at runtime that i do not have to release the source for it? On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:17:01 -0400, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote: > On 2010-10-23 7:27, Carlo Wood wrote: >> I am not a lawyer :p, but I thin

Re: [opensource-dev] [META] User stories and issue tracker readability

2010-10-27 Thread Zai Lynch
> > It is very helpful to us when scanning lists of issues to be able to see > whether they are motivated by a user-visible effect or are concerned > with viewer developers or some other audience. > But isn't that what components could be used for? Affects: Users, UI Affects: Merchants, i18n etc.

Re: [opensource-dev] LGPL violation

2010-10-27 Thread Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)
On 2010-10-23 7:27, Carlo Wood wrote: > I am not a lawyer :p, but I think that it is allowed to link an LGPL-ed > library statically against a proprietary executable provided you > provide the object code or source code of the work that uses the library. Not correct. LGPL code may be linked to

Re: [opensource-dev] [META] User stories and issue tracker readability

2010-10-27 Thread Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)
On 2010-10-23 12:25, SuezanneC Baskerville wrote: > > Part of the change was to add the words "As a user," to the Summary > field. > > https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-675 > > They also changed the importance from minor to major. I suspect > these two actions are connected. > > I suspec

Re: [opensource-dev] Files deleted by uninstaller don't appear in Recycle Bin

2010-10-27 Thread Argent Stonecutter
The uninstaller shouldn't remove ANYTHING in the user's profile, period. It's not being "unclear" by removing files in the user's profile when it removes files in the Program Files directory, it's simply doing the wrong thing. This has been an ongoing problem for years, I suspect there's a Jira