[Opensim-dev] proposal: cleanup and break up region modules

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Dr Scofield wrote:
> i've been looking at where region modules live in our source tree --- 
> OpenSim/Region/Modules and OpenSim/Region/Environment/Modules --- and 
> how they get bundled:
> 
>     * modules in OpenSim/Region/Modules get their own private DLL
>     * OpenSim/Region/Environment/Modules get lumped into ONE gigantic DLL
> 
> off the 3 modules living in OpenSim/Region/Modules 2 might be good 
> candidate for forge project: python and SvnSerializer. the third really 
> belongs to the Terrain region module and seems to contain the default 
> terrain effects.
> 
> i think it would make sense to
> 
>     * have all region modules living in the same neighborhood (i'd
>       prefer OpenSim/Region/Modules), the current layout is a bit confusing

Don't we need to make a distinction between 'service' modules (such as the REST module) and scene/environment modules 
though?  The former are not attached to a scene (and may well never be concerned with scene code) while the latter are 
very much scene related.

>     * break up the region module super-DLL so that each region module
>       gets a DLL of its own

At least on mono, I'm guessing that this would vastly expand build times.  Certainly at the moment, each invocation of 
mono to build a new assembly appears to take far longer than building many files in a single dll.

I also tend to think of the current modules in OpenSim/Region/Environment/Modules as fairly core modules that one would 
expect to be packaged together, and which it would be inconvenient to split up.

> 
> this would make the whole region module business much more, err, modular 
> (and, who knows, perhaps we'd even have one day a build system like the 
> "make menuconfig" one found in the linux kernel tree)
> 
> what is the general opinion on this? i'd be willing to undertake the 
> refactoring (including tackling the prebuild.xml dragon).
> 
>     DrS/dirk
> 
> -- 
> dr dirk husemann ---- virtual worlds research ---- ibm zurich research lab
> SL: dr scofield ---- drscofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net ---- http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/
> RL: hud at zurich.ibm.com - +41 44 724 8573 - http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~hud/
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Opensim-dev mailing list
> Opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev


-- 
justincc
Justin Clark-Casey
http://justincc.wordpress.com