[Opensim-dev] heads up: recent secondlife client versions don't support OSSL functions

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Mircea Filipescu wrote:
> Typical for Linden lab to do such pointless things when they aren't 
> needed nor welcome. Anyway isn't it possible for OSSL functions to just 
> apply an effect to the sim / primitive and the client to simply notice 
> it? Isn't opensim the one who reads the script and applies a certain 
> effect, while the client just sees it? If not maybe we can still ask LL 
> to fix that and still leave the old method in, though that sounds a bit 
> improbable for them to listen and do such a thing for us :( Maybe we can 
> still try to convince them when we have a meeting with them again? Is 
> there really nothing we can do overall... can't that be gotten over somehow?
> 

I gather, Mircea, that the newest 1.21 client is no longer sending the script to OpenSim if it finds non ll functions 
that are not defined in that script itself.

Personally I'm more inclined to blame cock up (the Linden making the change doesn't yet appreciate the effect on 
OpenSim) than conspiracy, though I'm a very trusting chap that way :-)

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:10:02 -0700
>  > From: cmickeyb at gmail.com
>  > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>  > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] heads up: recent secondlife client 
> versions don't support OSSL functions
>  >
>  > presumably this means also that all of my C# scripts (we rarely use
>  > LSL) will also break. sigh...
>  >
>  > --mic
>  >
>  >
>  > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Dr Scofield 
> <DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net> wrote:
>  > > having just wasted most of a day on trying to figure out why OSSL 
> functions
>  > > such as osSetDynamicTextureData and friends were returning an LSL 
> compile
>  > > error (ERROR: name not in scope) i thought i'd report back on my 
> findings:
>  > >
>  > > OSSL functions (inspite of the heavy changes in the scripting 
> subsystem in
>  > > recent days) are working just fine (provided you enabled them as 
> documented
>  > > in OpenSim.ini.example)
>  > > recent LindenLab(tm)/(r) provided secondlife clients (certainly the 
> 1.21
>  > > series) are apparently no longer relying on the grid to vet the 
> script and
>  > > the functions it calls, but instead seem to check all function 
> calls against
>  > >
>  > > list of known LSL function
>  > > list of functions you have defined in your script
>  > >
>  > > anything not found on those lists is flagged as "not in scope"
>  > >
>  > > once i switched to hippo viewer
>  > > (http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/opensim-viewer/) 
> everything was
>  > > fine.
>  > >
>  > > cheers,
>  > > dr scofield
>  > >
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> research lab
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