It seems to me we have consensus on the need to add a new capability for this, except from Linden Lab? To quote myself from 2 Dec::
I regret it that we don't have a good communication link with ALL LL developers, only with the handful that is working on snowglobe, or maybe I'm just missing an overview. Is there anyone here who could say: Ok, lets change the server-client protocol? That question was never answered... Merov? On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Lisa Denia <[email protected]> wrote: > Carlo Wood wrote: >> Yes, but in order to allow opensim to ever support this, >> snowglobe should ASAP implement a capability to get the URL. > >> Then, since opensim will report it doesn't have that capability, >> we can also fall back to the old way of displaying map tiles. > > Sounds like a very good idea to me. > > Dahlia wrote: >> that may require the capability to also exist on the SL grids. > > Of course. I don't know much about Linden Lab's internal server software > releasy cycles, but is that a problem? > Snowglobe is still something "experimental" as far as I know. Since > introducing that capability doesn't break anything for Snowglobe users(the map > could load a bit slower maybe), it can safely be added at the next regular > server update. Snowglobe could even force HTTP map tiles when it detects that > it's connected to Linden Lab's grid(maybe a bit dirty :)). > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
