[Opensim-dev] init.d scripts I put on the wiki and putting then in the svn

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Hi Brian,

Sorry for the terse reply last night - it was very late and my head was 
full of an attempt to pin down a memory leak.

Essentially, Stefan's suggestion has hit my main reason for my opinion 
right on the head (to mangle a metaphor).  By not making the installer 
(and such scripts) part of the OpenSim SVN, it potentially allows a much 
larger set of people to directly change, adapt and maintain them (for 
example, through a site such as the one Stefan suggests) than just those 
with OpenSim SVN access.  One can argue that changes can be made through 
patch, but we are already fairly bad at dealing with the code patches we 
get currently.

Installer code is one of those things which is pretty decoupled from 
core code changes (the main pain point is reacting to required shippable 
file changes).  As long as the installer has a BSD (or like) license, it 
could still be bundled with the OpenSim code on a formal release (or 
included in some nightly build).

Regards,

justincc


Stefan Andersson wrote:
> I just suggested on the chat channel that we create a site,
>  
> gotopensim.com (or something like that)
>  
> that caters for the opensim community with forum, support, samples, 
> scripts, binaries, asset libraries et c
>  
> I'm thinking something like gotdotnet.com + getfirefox.com
>  
> /Stefan
>
>
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:00:06 -0700
>     From: nebadon2025 at gmail.com
>     To: brianw at terrabox.com; opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>     Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] init.d scripts I put on the wiki and
>     putting then in the svn
>
>     if your making an installer why do they need to be in the SVN?
>
>     On Feb 8, 2008 10:27 PM, Brian Wolfe <brianw at terrabox.com
>     <mailto:brianw at terrabox.com>> wrote:
>
>         I was considering creating a unix installer tool which would
>         need the
>         scripts.
>
>
>         On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 04:12 +0000, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>         > Brian Wolfe wrote:
>         > > I was thinking today that it would probably be a good idea
>         to have a
>         > > place in the SVN where contributing scripts such as these
>         could be
>         > > added. That way people wouldn't have to hunt them down on
>         the wiki to
>         > > have them. It would also let me pass out updates for the
>         scripts as I
>         > > improve them.
>         > >
>         > > Any objections to makign the scripts a part of OpenSim
>         svn? If not,
>         > > would someone be kind enough to dd them for me? :)
>         > >
>         > In my personal opinion, support scripts like these should
>         live in a
>         > separate space from the core OpenSim project.
>         >
>
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