[Opensim-dev] Perl vs C# UGAI?

[Sean Dague]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:27:07PM +0100, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> I'm very much in favour of the idea of alternative implementations of 
> the UGAI protocols.
> 
> As James, has suggested, in other circumstances it would be good to 
> formally write down the protocol and advertise and discuss changes 
> beforehand.  However, the problem is, as Michael and Sean say, is that 
> it's still in a state of considerable flux (this is Alpha code!). Trying 
> to formalize at this stage would considerably slow down development.
> 
> I have to agree with Michael that we shouldn't have alternative 
> implementations in our own svn tree - it will cause considerable 
> confusion as to what OpenSim officially supports and what it doesn't.  
> And hypothetically, if Lulurun goes away for whatever reason 
> (hypothetically!) the onus to maintain it as an 'official' alternative 
> would fall on the OpenSim developers.  Whether the Perl alternative 
> should really be the reference (not necessarily the best) implementation 
> is another argument, I think.  I can see pros and cons for both.
> 
> Having said that, it sounds like Lulurun is willing to maintain the code 
> to match changes in the protocol.  Even if the code doesn't live inside 
> the OpenSim tree, I believe we could make an effort on an informal basis 
> to advertise and discuss proposed protocol changes before the fact 
> (unless the changes are very large, in which case things would have to 
> be done post-facto).

Yes, we should have links to alternate implementations somewhere on the
wiki.  Honestly, I suspect that we'll end up with UGAI in at least perl,
python, ASP.NET, java, and ruby by the end of the year that people are
maintaining.  That is a strength, not a weakness.

    -Sean

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