How do you plan to migrate to Mono?

I just saw the replies to the thread regarding HyperCard, where it was suggested that there would be a forced recompilation of all scripts when migrating to Mono.

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Would I be correct in that script state will not be preserved across the recompile? Because this would be *seriously bad* for me if all my scripts were automatically reset.

Would it be possible to allow some sort of grace time, maybe a couple months, where both the old LSL VM and the new Mono implementation could run scripts? This would give us a chance to patch all our scripts so that we don't suddenly and disastrously lose all state.

I'm going to forward this to Babbage and ask him.

The current plan is to recompile the scripts from LSL source code to CIL bytecode but to copy the global state from the existing LSL scripts to the new Mono script. We will run both virtual machines side by side until we're happy that converting the scripts won't break them. It would be nice if we could just wait until scripts returned from their current event handlers so we only have to copy global state and not stack state across, but we may have to convert values on the stack too, so we can convert scripts which sit in an infinite loop sleeping and then doing some work.

So, the LSL source code will be used to generate the Mono bytecode, but the scripts won't be reset, they will be converted from running LSL scripts to running Mono scripts. Hope that clears things up.