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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