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

[David Saunders]

Hey
    I Just dug though my web based region file, and its base on a single
line XML format  <region name= location_x= ... />

    Would this be needed to updated with this proposal?







On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Michael Emory Cerquoni <
nebadon2025 at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 the only grid I know that probably was using it was Reaction Grid, and
> they are no longer open so I also doubt anyone else is using it at this
> point either.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Justin Clark-Casey <
> jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't see any problem with removing this - it's an extremely old format
>> that I'd be surprised if anybody still uses.
>>
>>
>> On 11/04/14 02:03, 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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