[sldev] Re: Feature freeze

Argent Stonecutter secret.argent at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 06:27:16 PDT 2008


On 2008-04-08, at 06:48, Jim Purbrick (Babbage) wrote:
> Arguably the biggest benefit of Mono is that it gets us a more  
> stable, tested and secure VM. For example SEC-53  is a simulator  
> crash bug on the LSL runtime, but it causes an exception to be  
> thrown in the Mono runtime, and is caught at compile time by the  
> Mono bytecode verifier. [...] Mono may look like a shiny new  
> feature, but it's arguably a better route to stability and security  
> than freezing LSL and fixing bugs in the existing runtime.


There have been multiple statements from Lindens that the LSL2  
runtime is NOT going away, that both CIL and LSL2 will remain  
available indefinitely. Are you now telling us something different?



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