[Opensim-dev] OpenSimulator 0.6 Roadmap

[Kyle Hamilton]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Dr Scofield <DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net> wrote:
> Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>>
>> For my part, I would like to propose a goal of properly cleaning up
>> region module modularization for 0.6.  At the moment, everything gets
>> chucked into OpenSim.ini (which is getting very long and confusing) and
>> controlling what modules are loaded is done in an ad hoc style.
>>
>> Ideally, I would hope that we get to a point where module settings are
>> in each module's own ini file and there's some standard framework way to
>> control whether or not they are loaded.
>
> as long as it's ini files (or we can deal with both ini and xml), +10 from me.
>

Can I make a plea for at least a little bit of sanity?  I'd like to
see a command-line parameter that will list the actual configuration
files used, do a check on them (complaining about obsolete or unknown
parameters that are set in them), and otherwise describe what they're
set to.  (Kinda like Apache's configuration file parser/checker.)

Of course, it'd be nice if a virgin opensim install could create its
own configuration file hierarchy rather than relying on the -example
files in the svn... ideally, each module would create a valid
configuration that contained commented-out lines of the config entries
it understands, along with their default values.

(Also, ideally, it would be a lot easier to specify a database
connection string at the 'root' level, and then import that string in
the module configs loaded inside that 'root' space.)

I'd prefer to not get lost looking for where I'm supposed to set a
given option. :)

-Kyle H