[Opensim-dev] Ini file(s) loading

[Charles Krinke]

Paul. I would think an installation wizard would be a capital idea. Only issue is it needs a "zealot" to champion it and move it forward. But, it certainly is a good idea.

Charles




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From: Paul Fishwick <fishwick at cise.ufl.edu>
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2009 1:48:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Ini file(s) loading

This makes a lot of sense, and seems how other usable packages are
deployed. Is there a way to achieve it cross-platform?
p

Brianna wrote:
> I prefer to see a 'wizard' quick interview startup like MySql for Win has 
> incorporated. I believe that approach is user friendly and less prone to 
> error than editing OpenSim.ini or the suggested multi ini's. One box check 
> for OSGrid would save many edits in Network, as an example. Those of us that 
> do this everyday are often not considerate to how formidable to a new user 
> OpenSim appears. After a day or so of comfort then editing ini.example to 
> fine tune will make for a happy camper and a hell of a lot less questions in 
> game or IRC.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Coyle" <coyle+opensim at knifejaw.com>
> To: <opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de>
> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 3:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Ini file(s) loading
>
>
>  
>> On 2009-03-07 10:02:55 -0500, jeffames at gmail.com wrote:
>>    
>>> For a binary release, I think having only user-editable config/*.ini
>>> files would make the most sense.  But maybe how we handle .ini files
>>> in SVN is necessarily more complicated.
>>>      
>> For packaged binaries, at least in the Linux world, config files are
>> going to have to be moved elsewhere during the packaging process
>> anyway, so where they're located in the SVN repo and whether they're
>> called *.ini or *.ini.example is largely irrelevant... for producing
>> official/official-like distro packages, anyway.
>>
>> -Coyle
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