[Opensim-dev] Script engine base functional merge - Dot Net Engine

[Sean Dague]

krtaylor wrote:
> Thanks for the replies Charles (and everyone).
> 
> I threw this out there because I believe that DotNetEngine possibly is 
> falling behind in terms of functionality and stability.  In my 
> estimation, 8 out of 10 script engine patches in the last 3 weeks or so 
> have been for XEngine/Shared only.  When ever I resync my code to head 
> its a very painful process that really has illuminated this for me.
> 
> But the biggest underlying issue is, when I am done re-writing all the 
> code necessary to make the new DotNetEngine, the 2 engines are going to 
> be actually much more similar than they are now. This effort is much 
> bigger than refactoring a few lines of code and retaining what we know 
> today as DotNetEngine. It really will be a completely new entity when it 
> is done. Because of this, it begs the question - was this trip really 
> necessary?
> 
> What if we just fixed any potential migration issues with XEngine?

+1.

If people really want to use DotNetEngine they can always flip it on in
the config, but it isn't getting any consistent love at this point.

The rationalization of the two engines ends up being a lot more work
than most people gave it credit for.  As such, I think it's a waste to
do that at this point.

Let's get 1 engine that works first.  I think the quickest path to doing
that is to rally behind the engine that is getting all the development
work, and actually has things like state saving, which are really quite
important here, and completely non trivial to add to DNE.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague / Neas Bade
sdague at gmail.com
http://dague.net


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