[Opensim-dev] A concern, before releasing 0.8.

[Shaun T. Erickson]

After 0.8 is released, people are going to be setting up varregions. You 
cannot TP from older code, to a varregion - you *will* crash. People 
won't know, necessarily, that the destination region is a varregion - 
only that their viewer crashed on TP. There will be many complaints 
about TPing being broken by 0.8.

I understand that this cannot be fixed. But I strongly believe it should 
be made to gracefully fail, at least. Only the 0.8 code would have to 
change, I think, to accomplish this.

LiruCookies, Nebadon and I were discussing this in IRC. Liru suggested 
(I'm paraphrasing) the addition of some innocuous message, function or 
something, into the teleport process between regions running 0.8 and 
later code, that would be missing from the teleport process as initiated 
by older code. The lack of that item would cause the 0.8 region to 
gracefully refuse the TP and send a message back as to why.

This may not be the exact way to handle it, but I think it would work 
and I really do believe that something like this should be added before 
0.8 is released. Unless you *want* people believing TPs are broken, that 
is ...

-ste