[opensource-dev] Viewer Tools Upgrades - with a call for help

Cinder Roxley cinder at alchemyviewer.org
Sat Feb 7 17:25:12 PST 2015


On February 7, 2015 at 6:09:54 PM, Argent Stonecutter (secret.argent at gmail.com) wrote:
On 2015-02-07, at 16:24, Cinder Roxley <cinder at alchemyviewer.org> wrote: 
> On February 7, 2015 at 3:13:31 PM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) (oz at lindenlab.com) wrote: 
>> On 2015-02-06 16:12 , Cinder Roxley wrote: 
>>> It would simply things greatly to remove lscript from the viewer completely, thereby removing the dependency on flex/bison for building. lscript is unused other than a few const values. Several tpvs have dropped lscript from the build. (I’ve personally done that in two different tpv projects.) 
>>> Is this something Linden Lab would be willing to consider? I’d be happy to do the work to remove it if it is. 

>> What would the end user effect be? 

> The change would be transparent for the user other than saving them a small amount of space on their hard drive. I have no idea what the final size of lscript is when compiled, but it’s basically all dead and broken code and has been for several years. 

Doesn't the script editor use it for syntax coloring? Or has it dropped back to using a more simplistic algorithm? 
Syntax highlighting is handled by LLSyntaxID now. This allows it to be dynamically updated by a region cap and not hardcoded into the viewer.

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Cinder Roxley
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