April Fool
With the TVP policy set to be live tomorrow, I will be pulling the non compliant debs from the servers, that means the old Imprudence 1.2 and the omvviewer and omvviewer-1.23 builds, sorry about that snowglobe is still there and the only compliant viewer that I am shipping.
I am also in 2 minds if snowglobe should be kept as debs, the TVP policy has already stopped nearly all viewer development under fear of unlimited liability from LL. The exact wording of the TVP is not developer friendly, sure they probably had good intentions but its a poorly crafted document and you can’t go on the it was not “meant to mean this” because what is written is what it means.
April 1, 2010 - 1:45 pm
How annoying it is not to be able to get OMV now – I’m not really a Snowglobe fan, but if that’s all there is, I guess I’ll have to use it. Could this be a ploy by LL to ensure that everyone uses their new Viewer 2? I hope not, because good though it it is, (despite the negative comments from ‘traditionalists’ and the computer illiterate) it narrows down choice. However I can understand that developers may be wary of the new TVP policy that LL have brought in – perhaps they’ll reconsider the wording of that policy in the light of this? I certainly hope so, being someone who likes to try lots of different packages.
April 1, 2010 - 2:03 pm
I’ll see if i can do something about this. I need to make some changes to the omvviewer source to make it at least TVP compliant, then I can at least release that again. But its really a case of hom much time I have to keep up with all these changes all the time.
April 5, 2010 - 9:54 pm
At least someone in there has that feeling. I can finally build snow on my ubuntu box… even imported it into kdevelop4, but now it seems kinda pointless.
What was non-compliant about omv and imprudence?