About 4 weeks ago, I posted that I was not sure where the journey would go. Well, it ends here.
The fact that the Windows maintainer doesn’t seem active any more makes the decision a bit easier (but wasn’t the reason). Personally, I’m considerably fed up with ironing out bugs and dealing with the many very demanding requests and error reports (most of them actually in-game, and not in the issue tracker). I haven’t got time for that. From all the people who promised to contribute, Alex was actually the only one who did (cheers mate, you did a brilliant job!).
Linden Lab’s policies are not very supportive, either. Bottom line: “Yes, you can have the code, but no, we don’t give a shit what you do there. And no, of course you can’t bundle voice either. Oh but yeah, you can submit patches, which we then declare as our own intellectual property.” (not a quote, but the general attitude). In other words, it is “GPL, Linden Lab style”, and bends the original intention of the GNU Foundation’s GPL a lot.
I will probably continue fiddling with my very own viewer, when I’ve got time for it. Maybe I share it. We’ll see. But there won’t be any support whatsoever. And it will only be for MacOS 10.5+ (Intel).
Considering that we had only developed for a few weeks, didn’t have a big team (it was only Alex and me), and didn’t make a big fuzz about the viewer, almost 7,000 downloads isn’t too bad. It’s a shame that so few people are willing to actually do something without commercial interests. Anyways. No rant. No offence. 
I declare Snowglobe:Frequency discontinued. Thanks everyone!
Enjoy your Second Life! (I will do the same, and ignore all viewer related requests in-world.)
It’s a sad day. All I was looking for was Snowglobe with a single, solitary feature from the others: double-click to teleport. SFE was the answer to that.
I don;t blame you a bit. Hell, Nicholaz bailed on his for the same reasons. It’s not easy once becoming accustomed to it, but I’ll learn to live without the DC2TP. But I refuse to go back to that bloated, feature-creep behemoth called Emerald that everyone seems to think is the be-all and end-all of viewers.
Sorry to all of you who use it, but bouncy primtits just aren’t important to me and in fact the DC3TP is the only really useful feature in it. (The fancy “builder settings” are totally unnecessary if you actually learn how to build using existing viewer tools).
bah… oh well.
Thanks for the effort. And no hard feelings, as they say.
I guess you now know how LL will eventually get rid of third parrty viewers that are annoyingly superior to LL coded viewers.
Well take care Sean! Even the current version of Snowglobe:SF is still the best out there. And continue to use it. To bad the other SnowGlobe team dont take a look and listen.
And Ari I hear ya bro ..emerald is over bloated.
Thanks for your efforts. And Happy Virtual Life!
Peace!
Cheers guys & girl!
I may actually come up with a feature-limited Snowglobe:FE version at some point again (that would include double-click TP, possibly RLV, certainly inventory actions, maybe custom tags, and surely auto-busy mode; not so sure about any other features such as radar). But it will be for Mac only, unless somebody bothers to compile it for Windows. And it will only happen, if LL manage to fix the sculptie issues.
But don’t take my word on that. I will only do that, if I feel like, and if I’ve got time. The latter is a serious issue at the moment.