[Opensim-dev] Always mutable assets in OpenSim -- does it make sense?

[Melanie]

This is not about mutable notecards. This is about one particular 
case, attachment editing, and the desire to avoid thousands of dead 
assets being created by a single long attachment editing session, 
while at the same time not wanting to lose the work people have done 
in a crash.
I never intended to have this mutate into a discussion on changing 
the basic paradigm of immutable assets, but just to get one 
exception to that rule in one case where it is safe to do so and 
provides the most elegant solution for an otherwise tricky issue.

I am very unhappy that this got derailed into a discussion about 
making all assets mutable. This is not what i intended.

I may be better off maintaining nice, clean, working attachment 
persistence as a private patch.

Melanie

Latha Serevi wrote:
> One simple and tempting approach is to make the firm declarations:
> Mutable objects must live in a sim, and all sim objects are mutable. 
> Immutable objects live in asset servers, and all assets are immutable.
> 
> This is more or less what we expect to happen, and it has huge
> advantages; but we end up having a lot of explicit updater
> scripts, and a lot of out-of-date objects whose creators didn't
> plan ahead with an updater script or whose owners haven't
> rezzed them lately.
> 
> Can we imagine a next-simplest approach where certain assets
> are mutable?  Perhaps a single level of indirection, with an asset
> type that is a mutable reference to an immutable asset?   Or some
> kind of update mechanism that can be explicitly invoked on assets?
> 
> Advantage:  you can examine a up-to-date schedule for your favorite
> coffeehouse by examining a mutable notecard in inventory, rather than
> visiting a sim or wearing a schedule HUD.  Disadvantage: the possibility
> that your mutable T-shirt-of-the-week leaves you naked, or that
> the (unwisely mutable) bricks of your house change size.
> 
> This is a meaty conceptual challenge.  If we don't address it at all,
> we'll be putting a lot of our mutable info onto web pages. 
> Is that what we want?
> 
> 
> Latha
> 
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