[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For what it's worth, I believe one of the main tenets of libsecondlife
should be the following:
Libsecondlife does not and will not enable anything that cannot already
be done manually by logging in with the official client.
The purpose of libsecondlife should be to allow Agent automation so
actions can be performed more quickly and/or without human intervention.
These actions are restricted to anything already allowed by the official
client.
In keeping with this, I agree with John Hurliman. The fee must be paid
to simulate exactly the actions of the client. To do otherwise would
enable actions that cannot already be done manually by logging in with
the official client.
-Sam
I'm not sure I agree with that line of thinking completely, and libsl
has already broken it to a degree. With libsl you can send instant
messages from any name, which is not possible with the official client.
I think we should be striving to push the envelope with whatever is
possible, wherever possible, while at the same time protecting the
well-being of the system, the users, and the developers. The free upload
debate is simply a matter of whether code that is dangerous to the user
has a place in the official library or not. It would be like adding a
function that automatically orbits everyone around the client all the
time (against the rules of SL). Such a thing isn't impossible to build,
but that doesn't mean we're going to provide a high level abstract for it.
John
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