[Opensim-dev] Diva Groups and Offline IM

[John Sheridan]

I'm just theorizing here, but I would think that common components 
required for interoperability between grids would need to go into the 
core.  Just recently I finished writing my own offline IM handler in c# 
only to realize it didn't save messages that came in from over the 
hypergrid.  I've yet to dig in to see why, but after pouring over 
different examples on how to get profiles working I'm quickly realizing 
that there is a need for a common way for all of these services to 
communicate.

Its one thing to have your own proprietary communications formats if 
you're running a closed grid, but in the case where your components need 
to talk to other people's  - that seems to be a different story.  For 
example, with my profiles module I wanted to create a set of data 
objects (psProfile, psProfilePick, psProfileClassifieds, etc.), 
serialize them on the sim end, then ship them off to the profiles server 
and vice versa.  After seeing how other projects out there communicate 
with their server counterparts, it became blatantly apparent that my way 
would work just fine if it were used on a closed grid but not in a 
Hypergridded environment where it would need to talk to countless other 
profile servers that all likely communicate in different ways.  I'm 
pretty sure the same would hold true for offline messaging, groups, and 
so on.


On 02/16/2013 07:32 PM, R.Gunther wrote:
> Opensim core ?
> I hope it's going to be a module, and not in the core of opensim. I 
> have the idea there's already to much in core and not enough in modules.
>
> On 2013-02-16 21:07, Diva Canto wrote:
>> Heads up: after discussion within core devs, the Groups and Offline 
>> IM addons I did for D2 are going to be donated to core opensim. This 
>> means that core opensim will have support for these out of the box 
>> without having to install any further components (i.e. apache). They 
>> work both for standalones and grids. Diva Groups has the optional HG 
>> service for supporting groups with foreign users. It also implements 
>> notices with attachments, something that is missing from Flotsam 
>> groups. It does not implement the voting and accounting features of 
>> the viewer (patches welcome).
>>
>> For those using Flotsam or Simian Groups, they're all mutually 
>> exclusive -- the config decides which one to use.
>>
>> The code will be added within the next week. If there are any issues 
>> or questions, let us know.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Diva
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