[Opensim-dev] Performance and stability of 0.7.X

[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 23/02/11 04:32, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Neil Canham wrote:
>> My current projects and developments are still focussed on 0.6.9 since it
>> seems stable, copes OK with tens of users and supports most of the
>> functionality I've needed.
>
> I'm currently still using 0.6.9 as there are one or two things I need to do before moving. I am looking forward to some
> of the improvements in 0.7 but some of the things discussed on the IRC channel make me wonder what features I may run in
> to that have broken in 0.7 that were working in 0.6.9. Most of the breakage seems to be in git master and those things
> are getting fixed. Moving to 0.7 should be safe as long as I stick to the released source packages of 0.7 and stay away
> from git master.

Git master actually seems pretty good at the moment.  I believe that the major thing we're waiting on before branching 
for release candidates are fixes for parcel prim counts.

OpenSim 0.7.1 will be considerable performance improvement on 0.6.9.  However, I recommend setting a fair amount of time 
for any migration, since a large amount of configuration has changed.  Also be aware that the MySQL DLL in git master is 
known to break during some migrations - so it's still worth waiting for the release candidates where this problem will 
be resolved.

>
>> Indeed, I find myself not sure if it's worth reporting bugs I find in 0.6.9
>
> It's probably not worth reporting 0.6.9 bugs. AFAIK, all the main OS developers are on 0.7 and would have little to no
> interest in any more changes for 0.6.9 code. The best you could do would be to find out if a bug was fixed in 0.7 and
> whether you can cherry pick the 0.7 fix in to the 0.6.9 branch of code.

This is certainly true for me.  My current base of operations is 'near master' code (though not master itself, I'm not 
that crazy!).

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