Is this JIRA related VWR-20031 <http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-20031>Automatic download of syntax-table <http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-20031> ?? Perhaps add your comments and votes : )
On 14 September 2010 00:48, Joshua Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Kelly Linden <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd love to see that syntax highlighting and hover tip code replaced, we >> really shouldn't need anything in lscript in the viewer. If the syntax >> highlighting / hover tips could be read from an LLSD we could provide a >> capability 'lsl-syntax' which could be queried for a version or the whole >> map. Then you could get accurate syntax highlighting for the sim you are on >> independent of the viewer. >> > > At the risk of designing this via email... oh, what the heck. > > User story: "As a developer of LSL scripts, I want LSL the syntax > highlighting dictionary to be updated automagically so I don't have to > upgrade my viewer whenever new LSL functions or keywords are added." > > Per-sim versioning is a nice-to-have but we could probably start simpler > and have a per-grid resource. During login, the viewer can be given the URL > to an LLSD resource it can *lazily* request. (We do this for other grid-wide > services.) > > We could later choose to extend this to be a capability granted by the > simulator, which the viewer could query on each region change (when it gets > a new seed cap) to give the granularity Kelly describes above. > > The server side changes to deliver a static URL to an LLSD resource from > login are minimal; if someone wants to take a stab at the client side > changes and defining a forward-looking LLSD format, I'm sure you'll find a > server-side champion. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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