[Opensim-dev] Opensim-dev Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5

[Dr Scofield]

Michael Wright wrote:
> hmm, what is the mantis issue for the idea of moving parcel data to a 
> backend server? And what is the reason for this?
>
> Personally I'm against moving even more things to a central server, 
> having things local makes things much more flexible. Also if you have 
> a distributed grid, with different people running different region 
> servers, it makes everything so much easier.
>
>  What if a person wanted to implement some web based system for 
> changing the parcels on their region. If it was all on a central 
> server, it would be a much harder task. If its local then its just a 
> matter of them writing that web application to access their local 
> database.
>
> I think really we should be trying to go in the other direction and 
> seeing if we can move anything that is currently grid based to being 
> more distributed. I'm so against the idea of everything being central. 
> (unless there is no other way)
quite agree. ideally, we would be able to add "region links" to 
standalone grids, instead of running in "grid mode". yes, a region link 
would be more than just a link to another region, it would have to 
include information about remote asset server, agent server, etc. then 
there's the question of geography/topology...

    cheers
    dr scofield

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