[Opensim-dev] Wiki documentation of plugins

[Shaun Erickson]

Fortis was able to eliminate Mono.Addins; can't Core?

-ste

On Sep 20, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> 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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