[Opensim-dev] Rate Limit DOS Protection

[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 16/10/13 20:46, Toni Alatalo wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> In fact, I would say that making OpenSimulator as functional as possible "out of the box" (within certain bounds such as not bundling a web interface) is a standard OpenSimulator operating procedure.  That's why we have SQLite as the default database, for example.
>
> I suppose that is certainly the case when you think of it as a distribution also in itself, and not just a part of some larger distros (like Diva's etc).
>
> If it would be strictly considered as a lib to be used in some system that fills in the rest, then what makes sense can differ. Like say Bullet or Ogre are.
>
> But given that there are a lot of people out there who just use Opensim as is, always new people just grabbing and launching it and starting to use, I figure your statement must have truth in it.
>

I agree that there is a tension between making OpenSimulator usable out-of-the-box and doing different things in 
downstream distributions.

My preference for out-of-the-box is to keep as many people using core OpenSimulator as possible.  Multiple distributions 
are valuable but I feel that they can fragment development resources.  And then there is the temptation (which I would 
have) to focus complex changes on one's own distribution rather than making the effort to negotiate them upstream.

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