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

[Melanie]

Here is what I suggest:

Add a teleport version number to QueryAccess. If no version is
included, treat it as 0.7. QueryAccess has the ability to send back
a message that is shown to the user in the teleport dialog. The
QueryAccess call runs in the destination region, so if it sees no
teleport version number and the region is a var, it can return false
and set the message to something like "Your sim version does not
support teleporting into a varregion, please update your software".

Melanie

On 06/06/2014 13:12, Jim Williams wrote:
> Maybe you need to stop writing bad code instead.  People would be happier
> about moving up then.
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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:17 AM, R.Gunther <rigun at rigutech.nl> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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