[Opensim-dev] Wiki documentation of plugins

[Melanie]

The use of Mono.Addins was a mistake. I was against it from the
start and eventually my intuition proved right. Mono.Addins is a
horrible way to load plugins, it prevents multiple sims from sharing
a single bin directory and makes it nearly impossible to have a
read-only bin/ directory. Sometimes it fails to load modules altogether.

OpenSim can't move away from it as far as region modules go as the
amount of work to change them all would be too great, but we needn't
compound the mistake by adding yet more things that use Mono.Addins.
If we ever want to have a chance to remove Mono.Addins, we have to
stop using it for new things.

Melanie

On 20/09/2011 23:39, M.E. Verhagen wrote:
> Should the addon modules be used for the creation of plugins ?
> 
> 2011/9/20, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com>:
>> Reading that page - ROBUST was specifically designed to AVOID
>> Mono.Addins and will certainly NOT be refactored to use it.
>>
>> Melanie
>>
>> On 20/09/2011 22:10, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>>> Great stuff, Oren - documentation improvements are extremely welcome.
>>>
>>> As far as I know, the extension points you mention are unused for at least
>>> 2 and a half years, so I have removed them in
>>> git master aadf7dd to reduce confusion.
>>>
>>> If they are in fact used then this commit can be reverted.
>>>
>>> On 19/09/11 09:51, Oren Hurvitz wrote:
>>>> I added a page to the wiki to describe the different techniques used in
>>>> OpenSim to load plugins. If there are any mistakes then please let me
>>>> know,
>>>> or edit the page directly. In particular, I'm curious about the seemingly
>>>> unused extension points: are they really unneeded, or have I missed where
>>>> they are used?
>>>>
>>>> The page is here: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Plugins
>>>>
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