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