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

[David Saunders]

How does this relate to the XML format for web configuration?


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:10 AM, R.Gunther <rigun at rigutech.nl> wrote:

> Suprissed its still there, well people did have time enough to change the
> xml files to ini files on newer versions.
> For me, using long time ini files so you can remove it.
>
>
> On 2014-04-11 03:03, Melanie 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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