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

[Jim Williams]

Maybe you need to stop writing bad code instead.  People would be happier
about moving up then.


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:17 AM, R.Gunther <rigun at rigutech.nl> wrote:

> 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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