[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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