[Opensim-dev] Thoughts on Scripting

[Melanie]

Tedd originally wanted to do a script server. Unfortunately, he 
found that many things that need to work to support LSL could not be 
pushed across a remoting path.
He then abandoned the ScriptServer project and has removed it from 
the tree a couple of days ago.

While it may be possible to make it work for some scripts and 
scripting languages, it is an unsuitable concept for LSL and 
per-prim scripting.

Also, if the script server is half a world away, it would not do 
responsiveness any good. Clicking a door and encountering a 2 second 
delay until it actually opens isn't my idea of a good user experience.

Melanie


Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree, periodic state backups could preserve quite a bit of
> information, and machines hosting simulators can fail just as a machine
> hosting a script server. Not sure I agree with the delays either as the
> script server may even be able to do things faster since it may only have
> script processing to do and doesn't have to spend time processing physics or
> whatnot. If it was able to communicate all the changes that needed to happen
> in a server frame before the next frame starts then it may actually be a
> faster design. I guess a lot depends on how it's implemented.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:32 AM, J Ross Nicoll
> <jrn2005 at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>wrote:
> 
>> The problem with an external script server is you're still doomed if
>> the server goes down. You need to be able to serialise state anyway or
>> the first extended powercut/hardware fault/intern looking for a kettle
>> lead will cause unspeakable chaos.
>>
>> You'd also be bringing in even more delay in script response time, but
>> that's relatively minor.
>>
>> On 7 Sep 2008, at 15:52, Mike Deem wrote:
>>
>> > I've also been thinking about things like global scripts and
>> > external script servers. External script servers would solve some of
>> > the script state serialization issues. Instead of moving a running
>> > script from one region to another, it just keeps running on it's
>> > server.
>>
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