[Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

[Cristina Videira Lopes]

On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:

>
> Could I ask what is being done about the message service?  This is  
> still in its pre-ROBUST form and
> I don't think that we can tag 0.7 without converting this service.

Simple: the messaging server will disappear :)
It was never a messaging server in the first place. It was a presence  
server wannabe: it was only there to track the location of agents.  
Messaging itself is p2p, not centralized. Yeah, another one of the  
early misnomers that led to generalized confusion :)

The IM region module that does the p2p IM-ing will stay more or less  
unchanged, except that it queries the new presence service instead.  
Mel and I had a conversation yesterday about making the p2p connectors/ 
handlers in it explicit and visible out of the Region namespace like  
all other connectors/handlers, but she convinced me that we shouldn't  
touch it until we're ready to rewrite it completely. Probably won't  
happen for 0.7.