[Opensim-users] binaries downloads: moved to another site or we have to compile it ourselves ?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Hi there.  All build links before 0.5.6 and the unofficial builds were 
originally removed because we were getting a lot of traffic on IRC from 
fairly non-technical people talking about missing/broken features or 
configuration problems with OpenSim.  Of course, we all know that we 
have a lot of these, partly because OpenSim is pretty immature code, and 
partly because we're implementing a server for a client which is 
expected lots of currently unimplemented features.  However, I gather 
that quite a few people coming on IRC didn't recognize this fact.  It's 
also the case that recently, OpenSim builds have been a little unstable. 
  Removing the binary distributions was, I believe, an attempt to raise 
the bar to use OpenSim temporarily until the project is more stable again.

However, I see as of this evening, pretty much everything has been added 
back.  Now to me that's fair enough - if you make your website an open 
wiki, you've got to expect people to come and edit it.  What we may need 
to do now is to see if the problem recurs and what alternative methods 
we can use to ratchet down the expectation levels (short of immediately 
fixing all bugs and implementing all features :-)


Browser [ICE] wrote:
> Hi, I am very new to OpenSim and I am a bit confused. As of about 2 
> weeks ago, I could download the latest stable OpenSim version from 
> OpenSimulator.org.  But I discovered this weekend that  version I 
> downloaded had been rolledback (think it was 0.5.5 or 0.5.4) because of 
> Terrain commands. But when I got back to OpenSimulator, I did not see 
> binaries download links anymore. All I see are source download links. I 
> do not see infos pointing to a different downloading site.
> 
> Are the binaries downloads moved to another site ?  If so where and 
> could you add an info on OpenSimulator to inform new users ?
> 
> Are they only available through a valid OpenSimulator account ?  Since 
> the downloads were there freely available, I didn't bothered registering.
> 
> Or are they only available through compiling ourselves or Grid sites ?
> 
> I do not know a lot of OpenSim related sites.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sign in to Windows Live Messenger, and enter for your chance to win 
> $1000 a day—today until May 12th. Visit SignInAndWIN.ca 
> <http://g.msn.ca/ca55/210>
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Opensim-users mailing list
> Opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users


-- 
justincc
Justin Clark-Casey
http://justincc.wordpress.com