Hi All,
About a year ago, I was working on the Fortis-OpenSim project and had started digging into the configuration system a bit. One of the things I wanted to to was provide the means to interact with shell environment variables during the configuration. So, I studied the insides of Nini and added support for the environment variables in a way that lets it deal with the shell environment like already interacts with ini/xml/registry configuration media. I tried contacting the Nini author to ask if they would incorporate the changes into their distribution, but Nini development has been dormant for some time and I never got a response.
A few days ago, I had a conversation in IRC about environment variable support and decided to look at putting it into OpenSim. And today I was able to use the modified Nini to get it working. I have done some testing here and it works well. I want to push this to core, but I wanted to discuss the forking of Nini. How does everyone feel about that? I think having the ability to manipulate shell variables is pretty good for us, and seeing that the Nini development has been dormant so long it shouldn't be as much of an issue. If development starts back up on it, then I'm pretty sure we could get the changes into the distributed version.
Thanks! BlueWall PS: for reference - http://pastebin.com/f3R0sk5N _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
