[Opensim-dev] Module/Plugin Loading

[Ryan McDougall]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:33 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 18:25 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:09 -0400, Sean Dague wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:53:41PM +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > 
> > > > What do you think?
> > > 
> > > The loader approach looks very good.  +1 in moving forward on that.
> > > 
> > > Something to think about down the road is that Addins have online
> > > repository support built in.  It would be great to have that reasonably
> > > integrated with OpenSim so that we could move some modules out of the
> > > core and into online repositories.
> > > 
> > >     -Sean
> > > 
> > 
> > I've opened a bug for my work, and attached a preliminary patch for
> > discussion: http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=1591
> > 
> > It can be committed because it compiles and doesn't appear to break
> > anything. However its far from done. Next step is to have it actually
> > replace existing ad-hoc calls.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> I have updated the bug with a new patch. 
> 
> This one replaces grid and region Mono.Addins loading with my own. None
> of the other loaders are touched.
> 
> It compiles and runs in my limited testing in grid mode.
> 
> Cheers,

If this patch causes no regressions over some amount of time, should we
consider using it to replace all the ad-hoc loading?

Cheers,