[Opensim-dev] Supplying IScene instead of Scene for the future region modules mechanism

[Melanie]

I'm not happy with supplying IScene. It would basically curtail the 
functionality of region modules to what core believes should be 
possible, and will lead to ugly upcasting "(Scene)IScene" that the 
code is already rife with.
So, I'm not seeing that as a good idea at all, it limits things too 
much.

Melanie

Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> Hey Homer (since this is primarily addressed to you :),
> 
> I see you're making some progress on the up-and-coming new region modules mechanism.
> 
> Instead of passing Scene itself to region modules, could we create an interface so that we better control the amount of 
> innards that we expose to region modules?  It's convenient-ish to give the original Scene class to modules now, but it 
> will cause us problems down the road.
> 
> I'm quite happy to pitch in with this if you want.  I suggest renaming the existing IScene to ISceneBase (since that's 
> what it really is) and creating a new IScene that's implemented by Scene.
> 
> It strikes me that it's going to be more convenient to do this when we introduce the new system than as a separate change.
> 
> Thoughts?
>