[Opensim-dev] Legacy region XML support - Remove?

[James Stallings II]

For my part, I thought it was long gone :)


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the RegionInfo class supports an ancient form of XML, one that is
> based on attributes rather than tags.
>
> At this point, we believe no one uses this format anymore. Further,
> NINI offers another form of XML that is much more up to date and a
> better replacement for the ancient XML in any case.
>
> The affected installations would be those that use pre-0.6
> configuration files (regions.xml) or use web loading.
>
> The old config files would need to be redone by hand in .ini format,
> and people who web-load would need to change the server scripts to
> provide the same data in the new format, which is not too hard a task.
>
> I propose to remove the support for the legacy format, which has
> last been updated in 2007 and has been unused for two major revisions.
>
> Thoughts are welcome.
>
> Melanie
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