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

[R.Gunther]

I expected that opensim is doing some version check now. (if possible) 
and sned a message
back that the location the user TP from is running old simulator version 
thats not compatible with ... bla bla...
but at least a message when TP failed that tell users some info would be 
a good idea. People need to stop useing the older versions.

On 2014-06-06 07:22, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> 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
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