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

[Dr Scofield]

Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> 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.

that would be another step. first i'd like to get the modules settled in the
same neighborhood.

> 
>>     * 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.

vastly?


> 
> 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.

hmm...that kind of goes against the idea of them being modules, i'd think :-)


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