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

[Sean Dague]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:19:30PM +0100, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> 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 :-)

I've modded the page again.  Whoever added it back, those binaries *are
not* official binaries. :)

     -Sean

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