[sldev] Updating the source code

[Mike Monkowski]

Josh,
     I noticed that the MS Windows Desktop icon for the WindLight viewer
has a command line argument
-channel "Second Life WindLight"
Does this override the value in llversionviewer.h so that we can set it
on the command line rather than changing the source?

Mike


Josh Bell (Joshua Linden) wrote:
> See
> 
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Channel_and_Version_Requirements
> 
> Look in llcommon/llversionviewer.h
> 
> You should see definitions for a channel (string) and version vector (4
> fields)
> 
> On login, we check the combination of channel plus version against a
> list. Within each channel, some versions are allowed and some are
> blocked. We block viewers that are unsafe (security issues),
> incompatible (we've changed the protocol in some fundamental way), not
> supported (so old we can't afford to provide support resources), or
> (most relevant here) are in a test channel (Release Candidate, First
> Look) and we only want test data from the most recent.
> 
> Since this is a convenience for the residents and Linden, but (in most
> cases) not a technical requirement, if the channel/version pair doesn't
> match then we let the viewer through.
> 
> So: simply change the channel to anything else, e.g. "Qian Hao's Most
> Excellent SL Viewer" and you won't get blocked.
> 
> (If anyone wants to incorporate any of the above that isn't already well
> known and/or documented elsewhere into the aforementioned wiki page,
> that'd be swell.)