[Opensim-dev] future rexviewer merger

[Paul Fishwick]

I am resending this since i think I sent a message from the wrong
email account...

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Jani
 I confess to not knowing the details of the rex viewer source, so please take
my comments in that light. However, to me, it would seem more logical to
evolve the already existing UGAIM+R services of OpenSim rather than
inventing a separate way of handling region and user services. I feel that
we may need more discussion with the opensim developers (which is
why I am cc'ing them).  If I am missing something in the logic of your revised
Rex viewer implementation strategy, please let me know, and thank your
team again for its excellent viewer capabilities.
In summary, if there is something about the way that opensim handles
avatars or authentication, then suggest fixes to this via opensim-dev. Yes?
If the DB schema(s) need to change, then suggest changes or add new
tables.
-paul

Jani Pirkola wrote:
> Exactly, that is what we will do. However some of the services need to be able to run separately from the region or opensim server. The best example of this is the avatar storage and user authentication, which we feel needs to be its own entity.
>
> Jani
>
> 2008/12/5 Paul Fishwick <fishwick at cise.ufl.edu <mailto:fishwick at cise.ufl.edu>>
>
>     Presumably, the "services" aspect can be worked out as a region module
>     for opensim? Either that, or the rex team would work with the opensim
>     team on the opensim trunk to extend its service capabilities to be
>     more
>     consistent with rexviewer. That way, developers or users are free
>     to update or
>     re-build opensim whenever it suits them, and rexviewer would still
>     function.
>     -p
>
>
>     Antti Ilomäki wrote:
>
>         Actually that's not exactly the case, viewer modifications are
>         important to us, but the avatar portability service (and
>         participating
>         in world server development as well) is another central feature we
>         have. Our system currently allows full avatar portability between
>         different worlds and even the inventory works, at least to an
>         extent.
>
>         2008/12/5 Paul Fishwick <fishwick at cise.ufl.edu
>         <mailto:fishwick at cise.ufl.edu>>:
>
>             I could be wrong, but i thought the point was to make Rex
>             purely
>             a visual client (viewer) and to let OpenSim handle the
>             services?
>             -paul
>
>
>
>
>
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