Firestorm team to issue OpenSim viewer

[Geir Nøklebye]

In a message posted to OpenSim users, the Firestorm development team has announced they will issue an OpenSim specific version of the viewer with a codebase different from the SecondLife version. Firestorm will be the second viewer, following Dayturn viewer, to address OpenSim directly.

We have reached a milestone in how we handle Open Simulator and Second Life binaries. In the past we have provided SL-only builds AND OpenSim-and-SL builds. This has always caused much confusion to our users, and for that reason—among many others—we have forked our code into two repositories. This means we can now issue updates for Second Life and updates for OpenSim independently of each other. It also makes it a lot easier for us to develop for Second Life without worrying about backwards compatibility with OpenSim, and to develop for OpenSim without concern about SL compatibility. Everyone wins!

In the future, also the Firestorm viewer for OpenSim will have release dates and version numbers diverging from the SecondLife version, as do the Dayturn viewer.

For the details, check out the full blog post.