[Opensim-dev] Module/Plugin Loading

[Frisby, Adam]

It's on the big list at DeepThink, but I don't know anyone has tackled
that yet (Mike?) if not, go for it.

Regards,

Adam

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> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Melanie
> Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2008 5:25 AM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Module/Plugin Loading
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sean Dague wrote:
> > One of the reasons no one has touched estate settings is that it's
> the
> > deepest darkest part of config.  Our first config mechanism.  There
> be
> > dragons there, and not the anthropomorphic friendly type. :)
> 
> Reason i haven't goven it love is that i am under the impression
> Adam is working on something there. If that part is really orphaned,
> then that is something I would give a shot. I really do need it and
> just been holding off to not get in anyone's way. Dragons or not.
> 
> > We may also want to switch OpenSim.ini to an xml file if we want
more
> > nesting.  Big OpenSim.ini files definitely seem overwhelming at this
> > point, though not too unweildly.
> 
> 
> IMHO, XML is less human-editable than .ini. Files that are normally
> generated and just need to be adjusted in details can be XML. But a
> file that one is really expected to read top to bottom and change
> virtually everything in is better presented as a .ini file, in my
> opinion. I find XML to be highly unreadable and cluttered in most
> cases and I try to avoid hand-editing XML files if possible.
> XML would, IMHO, be a suitable format only if there was  GUI based
> config tool to manipulate them. Else, as with the plugin loading
> config, it would make it harder for users to understand and work
> with it.
> 
> Melanie
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