[Opensim-users] toward a new client

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Ryan McDougall wrote:
> We are very sorry that there isn't a proper linux or mac version.
> Unfortunately that was a conscious decision to concentrate our
> resources in serving the greatest market share, and largely stemmed
> from the fact that until I joined, no one in reX had ever developed
> for Linux, and although we donated a Macbook to a developer, I am not
> sure if even now anyone develops for Mac.
> 
> That said, there is actually very little stopping it from being cross
> platform. From what I hear there was even a successful attempt to get
> it compiling on linux at one time. However the LL codebase is a fork,
> and thus a little difficult to work with. It is unlikely that the
> current codebase will be cross platform without significant community
> support.
> 
> We are currently looking at ways to remedy the problem of our current
> convoluted codebase, and we look forward to releasing something cross
> platform just as soon as we decide what to do about our viewer.

That's interesting to hear.  Any chance of elaborating further on what the current thinking is in this direction?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Lc <lcc1967 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> no linux
>> no mac
>>
>> Baaad
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:25 AM, <shanesemler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> They need to make a Linux version.
>>>
>>> On Dec 1, 2008 8:54pm, Paul Fishwick <fishwick at cise.ufl.edu> wrote:
>>>> If you haven't tried it yet, go to:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.realxtend.org/page.php?pg=downloads
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and try out the new client and server. Apparently, later on this month
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>> next, this viewer will connect to the opensim trunk (rather than the
>>>> forked
>>>>
>>>> project that it is now).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The sea world is great! Lots of new features.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -p
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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