[Opensim-dev] OpenSimDefaults.ini clean up

[Marcus Llewellyn]

In regard to the specially formatted comments meant to aid external
configuration tools, it may be worth considering adding these to
OpenSimDefaults.ini. Currently, OpenSim.ini.example contains them, but
OpenSimDefaults does not.

When one strips OpenSim.ini.example down to *only* active sections, keys,
and values while including those configuration comments, you end up easily
seeing that every single option is being paired with a special
configuration comment.

On the other hand, if you do the same thing to a grid's OpenSim.ini file (I
used OSgrid's), it becomes much less consistent. Sections like Startup or
XEngine will only have a few of these config/option pairings. Some sections
like RegionReady, VivoxVoice, and BulletSim have none at all. The authors
of these OpenSIm.ini files aren't at fault. They simply have more
imperative things to do than track down all of the possible option values
or dependencies.

Since, presumably, options added to OpenSim.ini files like OSgrid's are
largely derived from OpenSimDefaults.ini, it could be of benefit to provide
the config comments in OpenSimDefaults as well. OpenSim.ini.example is
setup only for standalones. Simulators configured for grids obviously use
more options (about 7 times the options in OSgrid's case). Any future
configuration tool would probably be most useful on configuration files
meant for either mode of operation.
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