[Opensim-dev] moving away from grid vs. standalone

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Tommi Laukkanen wrote:
> Well said Michael and I have come to similar conclusions when working
> with OpenSim code. There is no need to have separate code for grid and
> standalone. You can run the systems using separate executables like
> standalone and distributed services and still keep the code base same.
> Separate executables are just a question how you deploy and fire up
> your system.
> 
> I might go even further and make decoupled services discuss over
> network even if they are hosted in the same sandbox process. It is not
> perfect for sandbox performance but then you would be running the same
> code in local testing setup and in production grid. I would say this
> is a big quality boost. It would also make everyone more concentrated
> on the remote API performance as those APIs would then be used in
> sandbox mode as well which is the environment mostly used on
> development time testing.

I would just note that we've been here before in list history and a significant number of us want to retain the existing 
in-process services for various use cases.  Look through the mailing list for the previous discussion.

That being said, if someone wants to produce a 'remote API' based single sandbox executable then please go ahead.  I'm 
sure that if it's demonstrated to work just as well as the in-process services then fewer people would object to switching.

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