[Opensim-dev] Supporting shell environment variables

[Trinity]

+1 for anything *nix  :P

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> 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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