[sldev] SNOW-140 - Failed forced upgrade - Snowglobe 1.1 showstopper

[Rob Lanphier]

Hi folks,

I've put off really testing the forced upgrade mechanism in Snowglobe,
and now I'm regretting it.  I picked an arbitrary older version of
Snowglobe (1.1.0.2490), and blocked logins.  This fails, at least on Mac:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-140

If someone wants to be a hero, this would be a *really* good place to
chip in.  We're not going to be able to ship Snowglobe without getting a
fix for this issue.  If anyone needs help in building a viewer that
appears to be that release so that you can test, it's a matter of
setting the channel to "Snowglobe Test Build" and the version to
1.1.0.2490. The script in scripts/update_version_files.py makes this
pretty painless to do.

I'd love to see some Windows testing of this issue as well.  If you're
not a developer, but want to help out, try testing the old Windows build
here (noting you won't be able to actually log in with it):
http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/downloads/2009/trunk/2490/Snowglobe_1-1-0-2490_Setup.exe

Note that this issue is unrelated to another related issue:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-18

That one is for optional update.  That's totally a web infrastructure
thing that is entirely in Linden Lab's hands to fix.

Rob