Now this is weird: I have a TPV that I have developed for my own occasional use -- not for distribution. I have identified it according to the procedures outlined in
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Channel_and_Version_Requirements and they seem to work. So far, well and good. I also have an executable binary of a standard LL viewer -- 1.23.5 -- that I use most of the time. This is a straight download of the executable, direct from LL, unmodified by me in any way, and so verified by inspecting the dates on the actual executable. Yet when I run my unmodified 1.23.5 and use the menu item "Help->About Second Life ..." , what is displayed is the version string that I have created for my modified TPV. Taken at face value, this observation suggests that my unmodified 1.23.5 binary is somehow identifying itself as my personal TPV when I launch it, and that sounds like a glitch somewhere -- I just don't know where. Further information: I am running on a Macintosh, under MacOS 10.6.3 ... I run the two viewers -- 1.23.5 and my personal one -- using the same Macintosh account (Unix account) and also using the same SL accounts (avatar names). When I create a different Macintosh/Unix account, and run the 1.23.5 binary while logged in as that different account (but using one of my usual SL accounts), the misidentification does NOT occur; that is, it looks like the incorrect identification of 1.23.5 only happens in the Unix account in which I have also used my personal TPV. I reiterate, all the mods to identify my personal TPV were made in the source directory I use to build it, and the version of 1.23.5 that I am running was compiled by Linden Laboratories -- all I did was download it. My guess is that there is something like a cookie, somewhere associated with my everyday Macintosh/Unix account, that is not getting cleared when it ought to be. Does anyone have any idea what is going on, or what I ought to do to fix the problem systematically? Remembering to clear cookies every time I log in, or something like that, does not sound like a very robust fix. Unanticipated regular misidentification of viewers could cause great confusion. I will be happy to file a bug report about this, but it might help if I knew what was going on ... -- Jay Reynolds Freeman / CeeJay Tigerpaw --------------------- jay_reynolds_free...@mac.com http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman (personal web site) _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
