[Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

[Dr Scofield]

On 01/07/2010 11:15 PM, Toni Alatalo wrote:
> Impalah Shenzhou kirjoitti:
>> http://www.dotnetnuke.com/
>> Is a CMS (like Alfresco, Drupal, Joomla...) but runs over .NET. It 
>> shouldn't be too difficult to connect the native Opensim components to 
>> get/set data instead of accessing directly to database.
> 
> It is also possible to use some of the Python written CMSes and web 
> frameworks (Django and such) and the Opensim .net code together.
> I'd do it with pythondotnet, which is a .net to Python bridge for the 
> normal cpython that allows use of .net libs in py apps. I've used that 
> to use LibOMV in Blender before - it runs the normal .net vm under the 
> hood and just translates the types passed/returned in the method calls, 
> performance has seemed ok and would certainly be fine for the management 
> stuff I can imagine.

interesting, need to take a look at that one.

> 
> Another option would be IronPython, some folks have tried running Django 
> on it: http://jdhardy.blogspot.com/2008/12/django-ironpython.html but 
> afaik that is still incomplete - probably some simpler web frameworks 
> work fully on it already.
> 
> To me using the opensim code instead of direct access to DB seems 
> attractive, given that the schemas may change, and that it's easy to 
> make a mess if have bugs in own code that work with the db differently 
> than Opensim itself?

IMHO, accessing the DB directly is the worst thing that we can do. it begs for
trouble, so agree, we really ought to go via the OpenSim interfaces (a lot of
the RemoteAdmin XmlRpc calls were motivated by that).

	DrS/dirk


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