[Opensim-dev] Globally avaibability of config options (?)

[Sean Dague]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:46:24PM +0200, Stefan Andersson wrote:
> All your points are good and valid. We need to get our config and directory shit together.
>  
> We're trying to move to Nini configuration library for configuration settings.
>  
> Nini is an excellent framework for combining different types of
> settings, and supports cascading and defaults. I think you will find
> it gives you what you're asking for.
>  
> This said, it's a bad thing to pass a poorly typed config collection
> around the system; better to be explicit and specific about what each
> component needs to know to do its work, one you get down to actually
> instantiate something./Stefan

I think this is one of those "be careful what you wish for".  There is
currently data in quite a few places, and that should be made a bit more
sensible, but imagine everything about regions and libraries being
passed on the command line, and your head would explode.

I think we're talking about a few classes of configurations:
 * Basic Application - doing via .ini and/or command line (nini gives us
   this today)
 * Regions & Standard asset library - xml today.  Possibly also let this
   be a database instead.
 * start / stop scripts - this is largely a work around for persistance
   bits that don't work yet.  Fix those, and you'll reduce the need for
   this file. :)  (patches always welcomed)

	-Sean

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