Content Support

Support Use Cases

This is currently a stub for at least the following kinds of use cases.

Use Case: Upgrading existing sold objects

• Creator needs to change the behavior of all instances of a particular version of a scripted object throughout SL due to discovering a bug, changes to SL, or desire to upgrade functionality.
  • Creator uses the development tools to build the updated version of the scripts and possibly linked objects.
  • Creator publishes the updates to the Grid aimed at a particular object (which probably consists of many prims).
  • Owners of the upgraded objects are notified of the offered upgrade through some trigger (object use, owner login, etc.).
  • Upgrade notification can be chosen immediately, later or never at the owner's option.
  • Upgrading objects is limited to the creator or a designated 3rd proxy.

Comments

• DSim
  • It would be very useful to be able to test the upgrade process offline.
• This probably requires something like a second UUID to identify the object in addition to the UUID specifying the object instance.
• Some kind of persistent upgrade list would need to be attached dynamically to existing instances of the target object so user's could update at a later time.