[Opensim-dev] Should SOG and SOP be combined into a single object in a linked hierarchy?

[Sean Dague]

Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> Melanie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>>> Cons
>>>
>>> 1.  LLEntity becomes very large and potentially complex.  SOG and SOP are already large and complex.  It may be possible 
>>> to improve this by further refactoring.
>> One large and complex class to make the other logic everywhere much 
>> simpler. A worthwhile tradeoff, i'd say.
> 
> Personally I disagree - any large and complex class is a result to be avoided.
> 
> However, as I said, I suspect that it could be broken up somewhat (unless you want absolutely everything in a single 
> class on principle).  For instance, all the inventory stuff should really be in a separate class, especially as one can 
> imagine virtual environments either where prims don't have inventory, or where inventory is handled different (e.g. an 
> inventory for the whole object rather than for individual prims).

Yeh, I think that if you moved Permissions and Inventory into outside
classes that were used, a bunch of complexity would start to fall out of
the environment.

Plus, we could get rid of the most evil of the partial classes out there. ;)

Death to partials!

	-Sean

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