[opensource-dev] from debug to prefences

Nyx Linden nyx at lindenlab.com
Mon Jan 24 12:42:40 PST 2011


Also keep in mind most debug preferences were written by coders who want 
to provide the functionality to debug features and provide QA with the 
tools to test features. The debug options themselves often are not 
formalized / well tested / well supported.

This would be providing more formal support for untested features. 
Certainly there's an argument that some specific options have been 
around long enough and are stable enough that they should be upgraded to 
supported options. We've moved a few of these into the advanced and 
develop menus.

There are multiple classes of debug options here: some that are stable 
and would do better with bigger visibility, some that are incredibly 
useful but require more debugging and QA time to be upgraded, and some 
that probably aren't useful enough to justify the effort.

  -Nyx

On 01/24/2011 01:05 PM, Jonathan Welch wrote:
> There are approximately 1,100 entries in settings.xml, which is the
> list you see in the Debug Settings floater (perhaps it should be
> renamed to just Settings).  I don't see any practical way of having
> all those available in any kind of sane preferences menu system.
>
> It would be good to generate a list of entries that are in there and
> never used by the code.  Those could be eliminated without much
> discussion.
>
> You can find a pretty recent list here
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Debug_Settings
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