[Opensim-dev] Opensim Wiki Wifi Page?

[James Stallings II]

Heh,

I really mangled the language of that last post in this thread; hopefully
not so badly that you all don't catch my drift. What can I say, the 'send'
button is just a little too eager to be pushed at times.

Feel free to hurl any questions concerning clarifactions to my post,
flameballs over my spelling and grammar, etc my way :)

Cheers
James
SimHost.com

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:02 PM, James Stallings II <
james.stallings at gmail.com> wrote:

> Diva (and all of those helping with this piece),
>
> I am delighted to see this discussion unfolding. I fell this functional
> 'hole' has been crippling opensimulator adoption in many respects for some
> time.
>
> That said, I wish to add that for a time I felt rather passionately that
> this belonged in core. My passions haven't really abated in that respect,
> but will say that I've begun to question my commitment to the idea that it
> belongs in core. In explanation, I'd summarize as saying that it's the ready
> availability of the functionality to me, in as streamlined a fashion as
> possible.
>
> So, I think the way it is resolving for me is that were there to be
> improved support for installing and operating so-called 'third party'
> applications alongside opensimulator, it would not only address my concerns
> with respect to what I feel is a limitation of functionality that is
> injurious to the growth of the ecosystem (tip o the tam to JustinCC here), I
> think that concern would be addressed in spades with a better (hopefully
> more automated) approach to managing our add-in modules, and I would
> heartily encourage any efforts anyone was willing to extend along these
> lines :)
>
> Speaking of support, I am looking forward to this code being pronounced
> ready for primetime use -- and as with everything I actively use, you can
> count on me to be ready to support it for all comers.
>
> Kudos to you all!
>
> Cheers
> James
> SimHost.com
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:31 PM, <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
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