[Opensim-dev] Supporting shell environment variables

[Melanie]

There are both pros and cons to this:

On the pro side, it gives one more way to set variable data into
otherwise static files, easing synchronization of configurations.

On the con side, the syntax is awkward as hell and it' useful to
only a very small group of people (those who grok *nix)

I think what clinches it is that nini has been dormant for so long
that the risks in a fork are negligible.

So, +1

Melanie

On 23/11/2011 06:34, BlueWall wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> About a year ago, I was working on the Fortis-OpenSim project and had 
> started digging into the configuration system a bit. One of the things I 
> wanted to to was provide the means to interact with shell environment 
> variables during the configuration. So, I studied the insides of Nini 
> and added support for the environment variables in a way that lets it 
> deal with the shell environment like already interacts with 
> ini/xml/registry configuration media. I tried contacting the Nini author 
> to ask if they would incorporate the changes into their distribution, 
> but Nini development has been dormant for some time and I never got a 
> response.
> 
> A few days ago, I had a conversation in IRC about environment variable 
> support and decided to look at putting it into OpenSim. And today I was 
> able to use the modified Nini to get it working. I have done some 
> testing here and it works well. I want to push this to core, but I 
> wanted to discuss the forking of Nini. How does everyone feel about 
> that? I think having the ability to manipulate shell variables is pretty 
> good for us, and seeing that the Nini development has been dormant so 
> long it shouldn't be as much of an issue. If development starts back up 
> on it, then I'm pretty sure we could get the changes into the 
> distributed version.
> 
> Thanks!
> BlueWall
> 
> PS: for reference - http://pastebin.com/f3R0sk5N
> 
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