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 <[email protected]> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > -- No essence. No permanence. No perfection. Only action.
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