[Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

Justin Clark-Casey jjustincc at googlemail.com
Sun Jul 12 23:31:52 UTC 2009


Melanie wrote:
> Pre 1.0, devs have a tendency to put jokes into software. Most don't 
> last, they're not meant to. Soem do last, even make it into 
> production. They are so hidden, most of the time, that they're 
> actually easter eggs then.
> B.U.S.T. was the result of a shared joke between myself and AimeeT, 
> with the plugins being implants....
> It wasn't meant to stay and won't stay. I'm sure of that.

Unfortunately, whether it's 1960s asbestos roofed huts that my school put up which were still being used in the 1990s, 
or throwaway names, temporary things tend to last far longer than anyone intends.

With something public, I think it would be far easier to rename now than to incur the confusion of renaming shortly 
before 1.0 when lots of tutorials and wiki pages have already been written.

There's an additional issue - if any of us male developers started talking about the necessity of BUST implants we could 
get accused of sexism, which would be ironic :D

If you like, I can replace whatever references already exist with an alternative name next week.  ROBUST sounds like a 
good candidate.

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