Back at the end of last year, I questioned whether the new 40-Group limit would apply to 1.23.5-based TPVs such as Phoenix and Imprudence. Innula Zenovka posted a comment indicating that Phoenix may already have such support.
….So I did some digging and found out that it does indeed. The code can be enabled via a Debug Setting (PHOENIX40GROUPSUPPORT).
However, before you get too excited over this, bear in mind that in order to actually work, a server-side change still needs to be implemented by Linden Lab, and the nearest to a date we have for this is “sometime” in January 2011 (if other matters don’t intervene) – and until this change has been rolled out, enabling the 40-Group limit on your Viewer will not actually change a thing! Your limit may say “40” – but you won’t be able to subscribe to more than 25…
Indeed, such are the rumours about the 40-Group Debug Setting in Phoenix that Selene Gregoire from the Phoenix Dev Team has stated in the Phoenix Support Group: Re: Rumor about 40 groups support in phoenix…To be clear, while Phoenix does have a debug setting to enable 40 groups this is NOT enabled server side! We added the debug setting for when LL DOES enable it server side some time in the new year. Currently enabling 40 groups in Phoenix will do nothing! It will not work.
All, this does (for the time being) is confirm that once the server-side code is rolled-out by LL, Phoenix will be able to support up to 40 Groups.
Hopefully, the code will also be available in Imprudence and elsewhere as well. Again, as Innula informed me, Henri will be providing a patch for his Viewer – so doubtless this will be ported (if it hasn’t been already).
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