[Opensim-dev] [SimulatorFeatures] mapping to OpenSimExtras

[Diva Canto]

I'm not paying attention to the details of your message here, but it's 
too premature to explain SimulatorFeatures well. This is precisely the 
foot in the door, so to speak, for evolution of the viewers, and I 
expect a lot will change in this area in the near future.

On 9/6/2015 9:56 AM, Ai Austin wrote:
> I have been trying to unpick what is going on with these features that 
> are extras communicated to the viewers that support things... the Wiki 
> page here lists what seems to be the case at the moment... it would be 
> good if people in the know about this could check it reflects reality 
> and the current 0.8.2 dev master setup.
>
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/SimulatorFeatures_Extras
>
> But in trying to understand why OSGrid is not actually passing any of 
> the OpenSimExtras to viewers (such as GridURL, etc), and noting it 
> only passes through the say, shout and whisper ranges Cinder Roxley 
> has delved into the code and see some odd things.  The notes below are 
> an edited version of an exchange between Cinder and myself in the last 
> few days to try to shed light on this.  Its not quite suitable for a 
> mantis entry, so I hope the opensim-dev mailing list is a suitable 
> place to raise this.
>
>
> SimulatorFeatures.cs
> -------------------------------
>
> The settings directly under SimulatorFeatures.cs seem to be deprecated 
> and pending removal.  I think they are coming from GridService now.  
> There's a code comment in SimulatorFeatures.cs that says:
>
>  //
>  // All this is obsolete since getting these features from the grid 
> service!!
>  // Will be removed after the next release
>  //
>
> I have noted that OpenSimDefaults.ini  [ClientStack.LindenCaps] has 
> Cap_SimulatorFeatures = ""   which means its disabled.
>
> Should SimulatorFeatures.cs and the Cap_SimulatorFeatures line be 
> removed in the dev master while some of the refactoring is going on 
> ahead of a new stable release, given the comment in the current code, 
> and to clarify a bit what is going on here?
>
>
> SuppressConsoleCommands
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Cinder also found that there can be an issue with communication of teh 
> OpenSimExtras to the viewer if SuppressConsoleCommands is set to False 
> in the configuration. It appears that if SupressConsoleCommands is not 
> True that it may not load the service urls.
>
> I could not find any reference to in the any configuration files or 
> .ini.example files... but Cinder was looking directly in code and saw 
> that if it's set False that the service urls are left unset and 
> omitted from OpenSimExtras. It may not have ever been added to an ini, 
> but it's referenced in code.
>
>
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