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

[Fly Man]

Some people still use the old format to load regions, makes it easier to
load balance the region server when doing rolling restarts :)


2014-04-12 3:14 GMT+02:00 Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>:

> 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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