[opensource-dev] 2.0 Absolute Dealbreaker - script count feature request

[Ponzu]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q at lindenlab.com>wrote:

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> I don't actually have an opinion about the right answer, but I will note
> that if this is going to be used for things like banning people, then we
> can't ever change it to be something accurate later. The pattern we see is:
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> * We build something that has a numeric limit
> * Someone builds something that pushes right to the limit
> * We change something, and the thing that used to work no longer works
> * People scream that we broke content
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> So if we create a call that returns approximate results now, it *always*
> has to return the same results.
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> At some point (sooner better than later) SL has to start obsoleting old
ways of doing things.  To my way of thinking, it is better to obsolete a
little bit overy so often rather than keep backwad compatibility until you
have to break a lot at once.
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