It has been made abundantly clear by Opensim developer(s) that Opensim is developed only to work properly with Firestorm, and they cannot be bothered to test with any other viewer.
Based on the above I have retracted the Linux server resources I have provided to the developers the last 3 years, and that was used for Opensim development.
In terms of Dayturn development, it remains to be seen how well this can be worked around, but Dayturn was intended to be a light weight alternative to the bloathware that is Firestorm without excessive baggage that weights the viewer down.
It looks like the only mission statement of Opensim for the time being is to make it work with Firestorm, and whatever is piled on to that viewer either by demand of SecondLife compatibility or the Firestorm team's own additions.
Much of the SecondLife functionality is either not supported by Opensim (Marketplace, Pathfinding, Experience Keys, their help system, Voice Morphs), others are not needed because OpenSim is not running in a single instance with assets in a CDN (content delivery network), others mandated by US legislation are not needed in many (most) of the geographies Opensim grids are installed in. In addition there is the need to support Hypergrid and standalone Opensim installations in addition to VAR support, not possible in SecondLife.
Having said that, all possible credit shall be given to the SecondLife viewer development team which works tirelessly to improve the viewer code. Code without which, any Opensim viewer, including the Dayturn viewer, would not be possible.
Based on the above I have retracted the Linux server resources I have provided to the developers the last 3 years, and that was used for Opensim development.
In terms of Dayturn development, it remains to be seen how well this can be worked around, but Dayturn was intended to be a light weight alternative to the bloathware that is Firestorm without excessive baggage that weights the viewer down.
It looks like the only mission statement of Opensim for the time being is to make it work with Firestorm, and whatever is piled on to that viewer either by demand of SecondLife compatibility or the Firestorm team's own additions.
Much of the SecondLife functionality is either not supported by Opensim (Marketplace, Pathfinding, Experience Keys, their help system, Voice Morphs), others are not needed because OpenSim is not running in a single instance with assets in a CDN (content delivery network), others mandated by US legislation are not needed in many (most) of the geographies Opensim grids are installed in. In addition there is the need to support Hypergrid and standalone Opensim installations in addition to VAR support, not possible in SecondLife.
Having said that, all possible credit shall be given to the SecondLife viewer development team which works tirelessly to improve the viewer code. Code without which, any Opensim viewer, including the Dayturn viewer, would not be possible.
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