[Opensim-dev] Capabilities

[Diva Canto]

I'm going to do this work on a branch called caps. This is mostly 
refactoring, not new development; it can go through a few iterations 
until we're all happy with the result.

On 4/29/2011 3:01 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
> On 4/29/2011 2:37 PM, Melanie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Caps as such are a a generic concept, they are not a Lindenism,
>> IMHO. Linden didn't invent them and I believe that the CAPS
>> mechanism as such should remain in the normal namespace.
>
> The idea is generic; our implementation is not; it's full of 
> LL-specific things, like LLSD, and it is serving the Linden clients 
> specifically. Other uses of capabilities will probably look quite 
> different.
>
>> Also, modules already use CAPS, if CAPS were in the client stack,
>> they would be much harder to access,, since the client stack is
>> somewhat isolated from modules.
> We can have modules in any dll. The proposal here is to move all 
> CAPs-related modules out of the core dlls, and have them in a Linden 
> dll, because they are designed to serve the Linden clients.
>
>> I believe that it should be possible to re-route caps to other
>> destinations, ROBUST or external servers, but not by moving all
>> handlers into the Servers namespace, that is not what it was meant
>> for. That would bloat and pollute it. This warrants more discussion.
>
> I agree. We can place them in some other Server.Handlers-like dll. How 
> about OpenSim.Server.Capabilities.dll?
>
> Crista
>
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