On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:39:10 -0500, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote: > That protocol works (and from time to time we employ it) when the change > is one that can be compatible, but that's not the case here. The account > levels are not an optional thing, and there never was any way we could > maintain backward compatibility on the server for viewers that don't get it.
You said yourself that: " What will happen with unmodified viewers when the Premium changes go into effect? Most Second Life usage should be fine without the updates, but there may be subtle problems. For example, an unmodified viewer may have the wrong cost for some action; if the viewer expects the cost to be lower than the simulator does, the simulator will reject the request. " I see no mandatory change there, and no breakage in SL server side, so no risk whatsoever for the grid or its services... At worst, the old viewers will not be able to upload assets. Beside, as I already explained: " Which is NOT an issue for most old viewers; e.g. I was using OMV (that just got broken), but never used paying services with it... Another super-useful (actually pretty much *essential*) use case for "deprecated" viewers is to find the origin of a bug: "what was the last viewer version which did not have that bug ?" is the first question I pose to myself whenever a regression bug is found.Was it pre-BOM, pre- Animesh, pre-Materials, pre-whatever-shader-or-render-pipeline-change ? " For the above use cases, there is no issue whatsoever when the viewer does not know about the account level ! > The fact that some incomplete XMLRPC implementations not based on ours LOL !!!! Too bad for you: the implementation I used was the one LL wrote for v1 viewers ! So, that's *your* code, not mine ! Beside, the implementation was "complete" (and worked for over 14 years) for the parameters that were in use till you implemented that change without even letting us, TPV developers, test it and give feed back. Instead of apologizing properly and fixing the login server code to *NOT* send the extra info when not requested, you keep trying to find excuses and specious, illogical reasons to justify your failure. So lame... Henri. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
