[sldev] [VIEWER] Re: New viewer released with logging of the owners of speaking objects and their location

[John Hurliman]

Dale Glass wrote:
>> No bundled databases, no javascript parsing, no fallback code, 
>> this is exactly what is needed and would close out the JIRA request if
>> it was already posted.
>>     
> No fallback code, but the database will still be bundled because it doesn't 
> cost me anything to do that. Region lookups are already cached and saved to 
> disk, the "database" is simply a pregenerated cache file. 
>
> I'm a big fan of caching wherever it's possible. On a longer timeframe I'll 
> probably implement caching of profile data, to have something to fallback to 
> when the dataserver breaks.
>
> Avatar key cache seems like it could use improvements too. For some reason it 
> periodically cleans up itself, and I don't see why when names are currently 
> fixed AFAIK.
>   

If you are looking at shipping an avatar key/name database, I think I 
still have one lying around the hard drive that was complete as of a few 
months ago. It's not small though, even after compression.