[Opensim-dev] Proposal for a cleanup/correction of the region-module system

[Dahlia Trimble]

I'm not really a fan of UK zpelling,,, but I imagine people uzing grep could
zearch for "initiali"
I'll probably continue to uze the UZ englizh zpelling in my code ;)


On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, MW <michaelwri22 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I have to say I'm not a big fan of what I've seen of mono.addins so far.
> Maybe ExtensionLoader is better, so I do think we should look at that. As I
> think it is better to only have one system of loading plugins/modules.
>
> As for initialise vs Initialize, hehe. Well personally I think it should
> stay as it is. I really see no reason to change it. I do know of other
> opensource projects that use initialise, Ogre being one. And it would be as
> hard for me to remember to look/search for Initialize as it would be for you
> to look for initialise.
>
> So my vote is a strong keep to UK english or even the mix we have (because
> some bits are in US english). But I really don't think people should have to
> switch code that is there to US english. Sorry thats a point I do feel quite
> strongly on.
>
> But saying that if everyone else voted in favour of that switch I wouldn't
> stand in the way. Just would think it was wrong. Any code I write is just
> likely to have uk spelling. The same way any code you write is likely to
> have US spelling. And opensim has had the UK spelling from the start.
>
> *Ryan McDougall <sempuki1 at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Homer Horwitz
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > the current system for handling region-modules is slightly broken if
> > you add/remove regions dynamically (or even for region-restarts). I've
> > put up some thoughts at
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/New_Region_Modules for discussion.
> > Please answer on the associated 'discussion' page or here on the list.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Homer
>
> I have two requests:
>
> 1. Can we unify RegionModules with IPlugin system I did a while ago?
> This would mean learning and using Mono.Addins, or ExtensionLoader if
> that is Mono.Addins's replacement.
>
> Let's just use one system. I am not sure there is a semantic reason
> why they should be different.
>
> I didn't touch it myself because I didn't/don't understand the
> delicate internals of RegionModules, and was worried about precisely
> the sort of issues raised by Homer.
>
> Also, Dispose() can be used in using{} statements. Lets use it, or
> have a base class default to Dispose(){ Close(); }.
>
> 2. Can we standardize on US English?
>
> I know our illustrious founder MW speaks the Queen's English, which is
> the language of the educated; its not really fair to enforce the
> linguistic hegemony of the country that spawned GWB and Britany Spears
> in our dear pool of sanity and righteousness; but every open source
> project I've ever worked on spells it Initialize. Including
> Mono.Addins.
>
> You have no idea how times I had to grep my source for "Initialize" in
> order to make it compile. :(
>
> Cheers,
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