[Opensim-dev] MXPClient?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Frisby, Adam wrote:
> 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/
> 

Thanks for the information.

> 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.
>

Yeah, I understand that and I don't disagree.

Of course, if we really want a level playing field we could say the same thing about the Second Life protocol (i.e. if 
someone makes a change for the MXP protocol then they are under no obligation to make sure that the SL stack still works 
beyond the fact that it passes the tests run in the continuous integration (Bamboo) system).

> Adam
> 
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>> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Justin Clark-Casey
>> Sent: Sunday, 22 February 2009 4:35 PM
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>> 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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