[sldev] Viewer Auth Postponed

[Kelly Linden]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2008-01-11, at 12:08, Robin Cornelius wrote:
>> From what i have seen its quite possible to have the old and new logins
>> exist side by side.
>
> As several other people have already noted... :)
>
>> Is it worth having both login systems in the code? with a compile time
>> switch. If things are all backing up it could be a way to keep all the
>> code current with old and new login protocols but with out breaking too
>> many things?
>
> I think this should be the way forward, with a command line option for 
> the default, regardless of what's going on behind teh scenes.
>
> In fact I think the XUI login should remain indefinitely, since 
> (again, as widely discussed) you can use either the new or old login 
> code regardless of whether you're generating the initial login page 
> from XUI or HTML.
>

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.  Maintaining this 
indefinitely would mean more code to maintain which is a Bad Thing.  We 
should strive always to reduce the total amount of code and complexity 
in the system, that is the only sane path to more stable and more 
polished code.   As an interim solution having both code paths is 
reasonable, but for the long term there should be one path that really 
works, whatever that path is.

 - Kelly