Wow. You are right of course. They are opening the protocol slowly so they can have more time to deal with issues as they come up. If they had openly published the entire protocol and issued a press release, they likely would have been inundated with work fixing all the discovered problems.
They also would have been slammed by the mundanes (the non-technical users) who do not understand that there is a huge difference between giving access to a protocol and giving access to the server's source code. (Some of their complaints are pretty ludicrous, such as looking up a list of someone's alts or their billing information. LL needs to communicate the difference between server source access and client source/protocol access. But the mundanes wouldn't understand that either.) Anyhow, there is a great deal of new information in comm.dat now. I'm very happy with the level of assistance LL is currently offering. It seems they are serious about opening up the protocol. -Sam -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hurliman Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:36 PM To: Development list for libsecondlife Subject: Re: [libsecondlife-dev] Updated ProtocolManager in svn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Might I be the first to say: Sweet! > > Can I infer that someone at LL legally transmitted this protocol information > file to you? I daresay we are at risk of losing our label as "reverse > engineers"... But that's like saying a man who won the lottery is at risk of > losing social security benefits... Who cares? :) > > -Sam > > > It's transmitted to everyone in the comm.dat file. Notice how it doubled in size since the last release? _______________________________________________ libsecondlife-dev mailing list libsecondlife-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/libsecondlife-dev _______________________________________________ libsecondlife-dev mailing list libsecondlife-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/libsecondlife-dev
