[Opensim-dev] proposal for modularity of ClientView

[Sean Dague]

Today I merged all the partial class pieces of ClientView into a single
file (it was always a single class), to make it a bit easier to start to
decompose the function into seperate classes with some better boundary
points.

I think the first thing that can be extracted is a class I'll call
PacketQueue.  PacketQueue has a basic interface of Add(Packet).  Inside
of PacketQueue will be all the throttling code, and the timers
associated with Resends, Acks, etc.

This will move throttling and all the actual packet handling stuff out
of the main clientview, and should make the seperation of concerns
pretty reasonable there.

I think the ned thing to do after that is to build a class with static
methods to build data for packets.  I think Inventory as well as some
others could use to not be inlined in ClientView functions.

Thoughts are appreciated.  I'll stub out PacketQueue and get it
functional on it's own before moving that function out of ClientView, so
that people can see and critique that interface before it actually
changes ClientView.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague                                       Mid-Hudson Valley
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