Version control repository
Linden Lab runs an official Subversion repository that contains occasional snapshots from the internal Linden Lab source repository.
Using the repository
- Create a location on your hard drive to check out the code (e.g. Linden Lab developers generally use $HOME/linden)
- Select which branch you'd like to check out. See the tracker to browse currently-active branches, and source branches for an explanation. For example:
- Trunk: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/trunk
- RC branch: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/branches/viewer_1-23
- Viewer Maintenance: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/branches/maint-viewer
- Render Maintenance: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/branches/render-pipeline
- Featurettes!: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/branches/featurettes
- Interop: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/branches/interop-9
- l10n: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/branches/maint-l10n-1
- Shadows and Texture Projection: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/branches/render-pipeline
- Snowglobe: https://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/projects/2009/snowglobe/trunk
Browse source
Write access
Developers that have signed and submitted a contribution agreement are eligible (not guaranteed) for write access to the repository. Other considerations, such as patches submitted and reasons access is requested will also come into play.
Mercurial Tips & Tricks
Unofficial repositories
Below are repositories maintained by individuals outside Linden Lab. These repositories are not affiliated with Linden Lab in any way.
Debian
Git repository for packaging the viewer for Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and Gentoo (so far), maintained by Robin Cornelius
please see http://omvviewer.byteme.org.uk/ for details
Hippo OpenSim Viewer
SVN repository of the Hippo OpenSim Viewer, a modified Second Life viewer targeted at OpenSim users.
See http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/opensim-viewer/scmsvn/?action=AccessInfo for details.