[Opensim-dev] Stable Branch pt III Was: RFC: Changing default script engine to xengine

[Ideia Boa]

+1 to the swedish people propose

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> Esteemed colleagues,
>
> It has been time to tag a stable branch for some time now.
>  
> Since trunk is currently considered anything but stable, are people 
> feeling up for trying out branching a stable version before we do 
> this, and then actually work on that branch to stabilize it? (Merging 
> back changes to trunk where applicable of course)
>  
> (It's not as hard as you think merging revisions, really - especially 
> if the revisions are reasonably local)
>
> It seems we really would need to create a still pool for the people 
> that just want to run their stuff.
>  
> So, I propose we branch 0.6.1-stable but not necessarily tag it. 
> Maybe, at some point, we can tag 0.6.1 from this branch, and lo and 
> behold, we have (almost) had a proper release cycle!
>  
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
> Tribal Media AB
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:23:24 -0500
> > From: sdague at gmail.com
> > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: [Opensim-dev] RFC: Changing default script engine to xengine
> >
> > This is a request for comments on changing the default script engine to
> > xengine. There was a thread about this a couple of months ago in which
> > the resolution was to wait until 0.6 was released.
> >
> > Here are the pros - cons as I see it:
> >
> > Cons
> > * a change like this, no matter how prepared we are, can cause some
> > temporary breaks in people's environments
> >
> > Pros
> > * xengine uses less memory than dotnet engine
> > * xengine uses less cpu than dotnet engine -
> > 
> http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/11/07/a-brief-look-at-dotnetengine-vs-xengine/
> > * xengine doesn't do the event drop which causes lots of bug reports
> > like this one: http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=2777
> >
> > I'm sure there are other pros and cons, and I'm happy for others to
> > throw them out here. I've been telling every IBM internal team to use
> > XEngine for the past 6 months, and every one say a performance and
> > stability increase after they made the change.
> >
> > I think that making it the default out of the box will reduce a lot of
> > issues that new users are having with OpenSim, and it definitely along
> > the lines of trying to make as much work right out of the box as we can.
> >
> > Opinions? Comments? I'd like to try to achieve consensus over the next
> > couple of days so we could make such a change.
> >
> > -Sean
> >
> > --
> > Sean Dague / Neas Bade
> > sdague at gmail.com
> > http://dague.net
> >
> >
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