This Week in OpenSim Dev – week ending Saturday 21st November 2009

Hello everybody. This is a short summary of OpenSim development for the past week up until the end of last Saturday.  The letters in brackets after bug and feature points are the Git revision identifiers in which the work appears.  We only give the first 6 characters of each revision but this should be enough to identify it.

The changes described here appear only in OpenSim’s cutting edge Git ‘master’ branch.  Please do not attempt to use code taken directly from ‘master’ in any production environment.  At particular points in time this in-development code may not work or may even cause data corruption.  If you are not a developer or tester, please treat this summary instead as a preview of what will be coming up in the next release.  The latest official release is OpenSim 0.6.7 (released on 14th October 2009).

This week in OpenSim ( 999779 – 2c8fbc ).

General news

• None this week

Features & bug fixes

• I made a change so that LSL “for” control loops that contain expressions surrounded by brackets, e.g.

  for ((i = 0); (i < 10); (++i)) { ... }

  now compile successfully.  Unfortunately, this does not solve compilation problems with other similiarly legal LSL such as

  (llSay(0, "This is a test"));

  This stops OpenSim currently working well with LSLPlus, which appears to generate lots of such extra parentheses.  Thanks to Roger Wellington-Oguri for this information (8f0db6).

• Teravus made a fix so that avatars can now automatically land on prims again (f7916d).

Infrastructure

• Melanie started to add infrastructure for storing generic data under MySQL.