[sldev] Re: Feature freeze

[Dave Hillier]

On 8 Apr 2008, at 14:27, Argent Stonecutter wrote:

> 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?

You're correct. LSL2 runtime is not going away. We *may* at some point  
in the future turn off compiling to LSL2. However, there are several  
questions that need to be answered before we can make that decision.