[Opensim-dev] MXPClient?

[Frisby, Adam]

It's a new protocol being pitched as a standard for VW's. No, it's not required for Rex (they don't use it [although are discussing it]). Re: functionality- that kind of thing is fine. If it compiles we'll treat it as working. If things break, then there's potential either myself or Tommi will submit a patch to fix it up.

I wrote a blog post about it here: http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2009/02/compatibility/

Melanie can probably elucidate a little as to why it's good for us to have a couple of IClientAPI's in core - namely that it helps prevent monoculture in naming schemas and flow.

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Justin Clark-Casey
> Sent: Sunday, 22 February 2009 4:35 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] MXPClient?
>
> Diva Canto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just noticed that trunk got an additional client,
> OpenSim/Client/MXP.
> > It doesn't show in the solution of VS, but it's there on disk. Where
> > does this come from? Or was this a commit mistake?
>
> I'd also like to know more about where this comes from.  Is it
> something required for the realXtend client?  What is its
> purpose?
>
> Also, what are the expectations are as regards to support from us (the
> core team)?  At the moment, I'm presuming that if
> I needed to refactor IClientAPI (or one of its eventual sub-interfaces)
> and had to make some code changes to MXP client,
> then these could be made on a 'best-effort' basis - enough to get the
> code compiling but with no requirement to check
> that it still worked.  Any fixes would be done by someone else after
> the fact.
>
> This would place it on the same level as MSSQL (and increasingly
> SQLite).  Changes made by core committers increasingly
> end up only being done on MySQL.
>
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