[sldev] alternative os support?

Joshua Bell josh at secondlife.com
Tue Jan 23 14:10:20 PST 2007


John Hurliman wrote:
> The easiest method is to pretend to be another OS. During the XML-RPC 
> exchange with the login server the client sends a platform field that 
> is defined as "Win" for Windows, not sure about other platforms. I'm 
> guessing you added another option to an #ifdef somewhere where the 
> platform field was getting set, so that field isn't being filled in 
> when you connect. All libsecondlife clients connect as "Win", but 
> maybe we should change it to Linux to boost up the Linux stats, since 
> many or most libsl clients are on Linux anyways :-).
We currently only support "win" and "mac" on the back end part of this 
handshake; Linux viewers send "win" (there's an #ifdef in the code 
somewhere), so you'll need to wait until we get the back end plumbing 
sorted out before tweaking this.

Joshua



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