[Opensim-dev] Opensim Wiki Wifi Page?

[diva at metaverseink.com]

I have very mixed feelings about where to draw the line. It's tempting 
to add more things to core, but where do we stop? We can't just put 
everything in.

A better approach might be to somehow make it easy for people to get and 
install 3rd party packages. I'm going to try to make it easy for ppl to 
add Wifi to their installations. The issue here is dll version 
compatibility, so we'll see how far the ease can go.

Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> On 04/08/10 22:52, Cristina Videira Lopes wrote:
>> On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Michael Cerquoni wrote:
>>
>>> Justin is correct, this functionality is not part of OpenSimulator
>>> core code, its only in Divas release, i do not think the intention is
>>> to put it into core either, but i could be mistaken about that, maybe
>>> diva can clarify that better.
>>
>> I don't have any political issue with moving it to core, but,
>> technically, I don't think it belongs there. Simulators have better
>> things to do than serve html.
> 
> I must admit, one part of me would be very happy to see it in core since 
> it does provide the basics for managing small OpenSim installations 
> (default avatars, account creation, password recovery, etc.).
> 
> On the other hand, I'm always concerned about expansion of core - we 
> already have 500,000 lines of code to support and this probably isn't 
> going to shrink any time soon (though the number has been surprisingly 
> static since the beginning of 2010).  And if we include wifi there's the 
> question of where one draws the feature line (do we accept patches and 
> hence have to support lots of other front end code?).  I'm not sure if 
> this would conflict with what Diva wants to do with wifi.
> 
> On balance, I would actually be in favor of including wifi in core.  I 
> think the benefits in terms of making OpenSim easier to pick up (hence 
> growing the long-term ecosystem) would outweigh the extra support 
> burden, as long as we were happy to limit the functionality that would 
> go into it.
>