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

[Diva Canto]

I just added this. Needs a bit more testing than what I can do by 
myself, so please, whoever can, test and let me know in the IRC how it goes.

On 6/6/2014 6:50 AM, Melanie wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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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