Windlight Builds from Daniel and Balp and others (2x Updated)

Here are Linux Windlight builds more or less based on my Patches:

• Daniel says: "Here is the unofficial, but 100% nicholaz style "EC-b2" source and linux binary:source code and binary. Binary has been compiled with -O3 and -march=pentium4. Just unpack into your Linden release Windlight 76886 folder. Hope this works as smoothly for you as it does for me."
• Balp says: "Also I made a version of Nichlaz patches for WL-16886: Release notes in my blog"
• Henri says: "The latest Windlight (77495) experimental build of the Cool SL Viewer is available on my site (http://sldev.free.fr/). It uses many of Nicholaz' patches as well as many others. Boy Lane also compiled a Windoze binary of the normal (not Windlight) Cool SL Viewer version."

And here's one for Windows:

• Boy Lane says. "The latest Cool Viewer for Windows in normal and WindLight version including the RestrainedLife v1.10.1 fixes is ready for grabs at (link) or (link)"
  

Thanks Daniel, Balp, Henry and Boy Lane for the builds.

Also see the comments for updates on these versions.

Outlook (again) ...

I have currently resigned (again) from working on SL because of RL time constraints and a general shift of focus, so let me post a short outlook on what you can expect next.

At the moment BE-v is still the official viewer. My version of Windlight FirstLook still works if you download the latest Linden build and adjust the version number (see the update note here).

Concentrating on my RL business with a thrilling new project, I am currently not really having time or interest to looking into bugs or quirks, so you will have to live with what's out so far, which should in fact still be pretty good (based on BE-v).

The Lindens have posted a roadmap on the sldev mailing list, see the initial post here and you might also want to see the follow up discussion here. The post basically says that there will be a semi-mandatory 1.19 some time in February.

Besides the 1.19 release, you may be interested in following the "Roadmap 1.19" posts there because there is currently discussion about a planned change related to how group IM will work. This change is most likely going to upset a lot of people. I'll refrain from commenting on that because it would be hard to stay polite and also because it would be pointless anyway.

However, 1.19. is planned ot be mandatory for official viewers while homebrews like mine will continue to work for a while (until eventually they will also choke on the new login). This will more or less define my own roadmap, i.e. I hope to revisit SL with 1.19 and will try to make a new viewer based on that.

In a nutshell: Until 1.19, if you want to run a Nicholaz viewer, use BE-v or see if you can bang the Windlight EC-b into running.

Other than that, see you again around February ....