[opensource-dev] Removal of the "MultipleAttachments" debug settings ?

[Dave Booth]

  On 8/30/2010 19:38, David Couchenour wrote
> Someone can edit and add the additional attachment points to the
> avatar_lad.xml file for the other viewer(s). I've done this for the
> 2.1.2 viewer and it seems to work. Note that you can't simply copy the
> avatar_lad.xml from Emerald to 2.x.
>
> This way a 2.x viewer can see the Emerald attachments correctly, and
> still have use of the newer multi-attachment feature too. Essentially
> making it backwards compatible with Emerald, but Emerald still cannot
> see the newer attachments.

I disagree. The proper way to implement multiattach is to recognize a 
list and render them all..  everyone that was using Emeralds ugly hack 
needs a backwards compatible kludge that isnt ever going to be forwards 
compatible. So to equip viewer 2 with the kludgy emerald attachment 
points would be to bake the kludge into the mainstream and we dont want 
that. I would suggest instead the following user story... "As a user who 
has become familiar with the TPV extensions to avatar_lad.xml I want the 
official viewer to recognize those "hacked" additions and silently 
convert them to multiattach-compatible additions to the attachment list 
on the appropriate point."