I'm just theorizing here, but I would think that common components
required for interoperability between grids would need to go into the
core. Just recently I finished writing my own offline IM handler in c#
only to realize it didn't save messages that came in from over the
hypergrid. I've yet to dig in to see why, but after pouring over
different examples on how to get profiles working I'm quickly realizing
that there is a need for a common way for all of these services to
communicate.
Its one thing to have your own proprietary communications formats if
you're running a closed grid, but in the case where your components need
to talk to other people's - that seems to be a different story. For
example, with my profiles module I wanted to create a set of data
objects (psProfile, psProfilePick, psProfileClassifieds, etc.),
serialize them on the sim end, then ship them off to the profiles server
and vice versa. After seeing how other projects out there communicate
with their server counterparts, it became blatantly apparent that my way
would work just fine if it were used on a closed grid but not in a
Hypergridded environment where it would need to talk to countless other
profile servers that all likely communicate in different ways. I'm
pretty sure the same would hold true for offline messaging, groups, and
so on.
On 02/16/2013 07:32 PM, R.Gunther wrote:
Opensim core ?
I hope it's going to be a module, and not in the core of opensim. I
have the idea there's already to much in core and not enough in modules.
On 2013-02-16 21:07, Diva Canto wrote:
Heads up: after discussion within core devs, the Groups and Offline
IM addons I did for D2 are going to be donated to core opensim. This
means that core opensim will have support for these out of the box
without having to install any further components (i.e. apache). They
work both for standalones and grids. Diva Groups has the optional HG
service for supporting groups with foreign users. It also implements
notices with attachments, something that is missing from Flotsam
groups. It does not implement the voting and accounting features of
the viewer (patches welcome).
For those using Flotsam or Simian Groups, they're all mutually
exclusive -- the config decides which one to use.
The code will be added within the next week. If there are any issues
or questions, let us know.
Cheers
Diva
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