[Opensim-users] OpenSim Toolkit Demo

[Karen Palen]

Many years of dealing with Engineering Design Databases have made me very cynical about data integrity and "insignificant" changes!

An Design database is very different from a normal business database in that the schema must evolve as the design progresses! I leave the resultant potential mess to your imagination ...

I suspect that th emost up to date version of the opensim.ini file will always be the example file that ships with each "tagged" release. It would be well to verify this with the developers though. There should be some sort of "release checklist" that tells what must be updated to keep everything working in any new release. 

This should have a statement about the location of the "master" opensim.ini information! Well we can at least hope it is actually recorded somewhere LOL

Karen

--- On Mon, 2/15/10, John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] OpenSim Toolkit Demo
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 9:21 AM
> Actually Karen you may be on to something
> here. If I knew the exact spot of where the OpenSim.ini file
> is at on the OpenSimulator.org website I could just pull the
> updated file from there and have my program adjust from
> there. I might have to look into that as a version 2.
> John
> 
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:56 AM,
> Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> That is a really useful project John, but as you note there
> are a LOT of settings to enter.
> 
> 
> 
> The ongoing maintenance could be a problem too, especially
> with OpenSim evolving as fast as it seems to be.
> 
> 
> 
> I have to wonder how much of that could be automated,
> possibly using some formalized derivative of the
> opensim.ini.example file. This file is kept up to date by
> the developers so it should be the best source for the
> information.
> 
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> 
> I am thinking of somehting along the lines of Lexx/Yacc
> (hopefully NOT those though!) :-) which would translate a
> structured definition of the settings and the allowed
> parameters into the actual OpenSim.ini file.
> 
> 
> 
> An even more useful yet much more difficult task would be
> to embed knowledge of the rules governing interactions
> between the various settings, so that illegal or illogical
> combinations of settings would at least be flagged somehow.
> 
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> 
> Karen
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> --- On Sat, 2/13/10, John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > From: John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] OpenSim Toolkit Demo
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> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
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> > Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 7:17 PM
> 
> > Hey thanks guys...
> 
> > Here is the demo being updated with a partial
> 
> > save of the INI file.
> 
> > http://johnmieske.org/OpenSimToolkit.exe
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> > I plan
> 
> > on putting ALL options in this over time. Its just a
> LOT of
> 
> > settings I have to enter in as info.
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