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

MW michaelwri22 at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 25 00:49:40 UTC 2009


+1 . so problem solved, and Teravus will start the conversion straight away.

Teravus Ovares <teravus at gmail.com> wrote: Lets change it all over to l337..    but, the UK base.

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-T

On 1/24/09, Dahlia Trimble  wrote:
> 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  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  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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