[Opensim-dev] Solution attempt about code duplication in database plugins

Impalah impalah at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 12:44:46 UTC 2008


2nd repeat: why don't use NHibernate???

We are reinventing the wheel over and over...


2008/1/8, Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se>:
>
>
> > Wouldn't we expect users who aren't satisfied with performance to go
> > back and change/tune their database later on, with help from
> > documentation/irc/a consultant rather than spreading an "OpenSim
> > performs badly" meme? Is this simply not possible? (I ask this from a
> > position of relative ignorance about feasibility).
>
> Oh, of course it is; mostly, my own tweaks have been about field type,
> field length and indexing. It's just that doing those things are god damn
> tedious if you're going to add support for them in an autocreate context,
> but very simple to change in an sql install script.
>
> > I appreciate your point, but I'd also like to balance this with the fact
>
> > that I think autocreation for all databases cuts down on the repetition
> > and number of user questions on irc and mailing lists. Perhaps there's
> > some way to combine the two.
>
> Yeah; I totally agree (being a fierce proponent of making life simple for
> the casual installer) - that's why I said the default should always be the
> option that is no-config-out-of-the-box.
>
> I may be wrong, but I see it like this; if you've installed and set up
> your sql server, created your db and set up correct users and permissions
> and created your connection strings and got your sim up and running, doesn't
> that imply that you would be able to handle running a sql script too?
>
> /Stefan
>
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