Re: [Opensim-dev] Refactoring SceneObjectGroup - Introducing Components

2009-12-15 Thread Charles Krinke
Dear Adam: This seems like a good idea as all of your ideas are and I support it. Lets move forward. Perhaps one way to move forward is to help to encourage patches that meet this vision. I am thinking of an example with notes and TODO so that others can take the example subroutine and add

Re: [Opensim-dev] Prepackaged OpenSim installs

2009-09-19 Thread Charles Krinke
Well, shoot, Len. We are all volunteers here, so lets work through it and see where we can get. After all, we are not selling any software, rather we are developing software as a community, and you are welcome to help. There are some binary distributions that folks have put together in the past

[Opensim-dev] Make ODE and Meshmerizer the default options and JHurliman

2009-09-14 Thread Charles Krinke
From: Dr Scofield drscofi...@xyzzyxyzzy.net To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Cc: opensim-us...@lists.berlios.de Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 8:13:50 AM Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Make ODE and Meshmerizer the default options? Justin Clark-Casey wrote: In

Re: [Opensim-dev] 0.6.6 kind of working - except for inventory access issues - and does not have root folder errors

2009-09-04 Thread Charles Krinke
Dear Chris: I would encourage complementary, weekly meetings on Reaction Grid. Perhaps one could extend the idea a little bit and also encourage hypergridding logons from OSGrid to Reachtion Grid (and from Reaction Grid to OSGrid) to get more activity on hypergrid links between grids as part

Re: [Opensim-dev] The state of content tools

2009-07-22 Thread Charles Krinke
Thats a very good point. Somehow, we need to get some momentum in testing, reporting, and patching IdealistViewer to add some more features. So, ... with that in mind, I would encourage a few folks to download IdealistViewer, set it up, use it, and report back here with results both good and

Re: [Opensim-dev] author names in git vs. svn

2009-07-20 Thread Charles Krinke
Dear Sean: For me: Charles Krinke c...@pacbell.net Would be appreciated. Charles From: Sean Dague sda...@gmail.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 12:11:50 PM Subject: [Opensim-dev] author names in git vs. svn When we make

Re: [Opensim-dev] Warning w/ ODE llTargetOmega

2009-07-10 Thread Charles Krinke
Well,... then lets patch it until we can get it to the 'happiness' state. Patches eagerly accepted. Charles From: Brianna wwwe...@gmail.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 9:42:19 AM Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Warning w/ ODE

Re: [Opensim-dev] Visual Studio 2005 support

2009-07-09 Thread Charles Krinke
+1, seems reasonable to me. Charles From: Teravus Ovares tera...@gmail.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 1:01:35 PM Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Visual Studio 2005 support It's been long enough, I think :) Regards Teravus On

Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Krinke
-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer? Documentation is on it's way. Could we get the voting back on track on the question of whether to deprecate/remove the old servers, instead of voting on the obvious need for documentation? Melanie Charles Krinke wrote

Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Krinke
explain your -1? Regards, Melanie Charles Krinke wrote: -1. Lets not remove any existing OpenSim servers. Lets *start* with some documentation so we know what is being proposed. Charles From: Melanie mela...@t-data.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Krinke
I would also seem reasonable to me that some smaller grids test the 'BUST' notion and report success before we move forward in considering in obsoleting our existing grid server executables. Charles From: Sean Dague sda...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Krinke
Well, this may or may not be, Melanie. But, I would feel a whole lot more comfortable about the whole proposal *after* at least two different groups report success in configuring BUST and that it is not busted. At that point, we need enough clear and concise documentation on the wiki to allow

Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Krinke
Melanie: I think the key here is 'evolution' and not 'revolution'. We have sufficient momentum and sufficient users with OpenSim that we need to go out of our way to provide and evolutionary path and that of necessity must include sufficient documentation to allow our users to use OpenSim with

Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Krinke
To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:43:03 AM Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer? We will be pleased to test BUST without the fears to get Busted... Sacha Le 8 juil. 09 à 18:33, Charles Krinke a écrit : Melanie

Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Krinke
I believe it is pretty important to ensure that we go forwards in a compatible manner and not backwards. Certainly new implementations of servers, executables, protocols and the like are encouraged, but we also need to make sure that everything continues to work. Perhaps this new work should

Re: [Opensim-dev] Deprecate OpenSim.Grid.InventoryServer and OpenSim.Grid.AssetServer?

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Krinke
rest assured no grids will be harmed in the making of these servers - to paraphrase the movie industry Melanie Charles Krinke wrote: I believe it is pretty important to ensure that we go forwards in a compatible manner and not backwards. Certainly new implementations of servers

Re: [Opensim-dev] Suggestion for project organization.

2009-06-30 Thread Charles Krinke
in development, so some folks will be advantaged and some dis-advantaged, as is always the case. But, I think it is worth considering and discussing. Charles Krinke From: Michael Cortez mcor...@gmail.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Monday, June 29

Re: [Opensim-dev] Help needed for stand alone grid for 800 users... HELP!

2009-06-23 Thread Charles Krinke
with the audio chat integration? I know Kyle Gomboy has successfully pull this off (Good Job Reaction Grid!). Let me know what you guys suggest for my challenge. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Charles Krinke c...@pacbell.net wrote: Dear Andrew: All my personal experience is with Linux servers

Re: [Opensim-dev] Help needed for stand alone grid for 800 users... HELP!

2009-06-22 Thread Charles Krinke
Well, let me jump in here a little bit. If I were going to set this up, I would start with four OpenSim regions, each running on a different Linux server. I would put them in a square and make the landing point at the four-corner junction. I would then make each of the four regions a

Re: [Opensim-dev] Help needed for stand alone grid for 800 users... HELP!

2009-06-22 Thread Charles Krinke
as a UGAIM for User, Grid, Asset, Inventory Messaging on a seperate server then any regions for best results. MCortez is around this mailing list and will probably reply next (or at least soon). Charles Krinke From: Andrew Hughes hug...@designingdigitally.com

[Opensim-dev] warnings in compile

2009-06-10 Thread Charles Krinke
I see our warnings in VS2008 have crept back up to 230 when building OpenSim and would suggest a few patches and attention to trying to bring the number of warnings down. Charles ___ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: [Opensim-dev] IClientAPI vs ???

2009-06-08 Thread Charles Krinke
Yes, I would concur that getting patches to complete Adam's vision of IClientCore is a reasonable thing to do and would encourage patches that move us along this path. Charles From: MW michaelwr...@yahoo.co.uk To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Monday,

Re: [Opensim-dev] MANTIS PRIORITY LIST PROPOSAL

2009-06-03 Thread Charles Krinke
I concur with Melanie. In general, the issue with Mantis is that those things which are in the interest sphere of various core developers and patch submitters will be the ones that are fixed. So, our strategy is more finding, diagnosing and confirming repeatable failures, as a minimum.

Re: [Opensim-dev] 0.7 Release Discussion

2009-05-31 Thread Charles Krinke
From: Charles Krinke c...@pacbell.net To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:29:10 PM Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] 0.7 Release Discussion No problem, man. As I look at two other parts of the Mantis Summary page, both the Longest Open and the Most Active jump out at me

Re: [Opensim-dev] Removal of project on GForge

2009-05-31 Thread Charles Krinke
I'm going to try to be as diplomatic as possible here. All of us may contribute to various forge projects as we and our peers may determine from time to time. I am truly sorry you are upset, Fly-Man, but that does not change anything. We move forward with or without any one individual and that

Re: [Opensim-dev] Removal of project on GForge

2009-05-31 Thread Charles Krinke
Dear Fly-Man: I would like to suggest we step back from a point of honor and try to figure out how to work together. There are times in this project when passions rise high and this is one of those times. I would really like to find a way to move forward without pushing anyone into a

Re: [Opensim-dev] Navigating the Wiki

2009-05-20 Thread Charles Krinke
, Mark P.S. Keep the questions coming, because those are all good topics that should be covered. If anyone else has any additional good questions, please chime in. I'll put them on the To Do List. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Charles Krinke c...@pacbell.net wrote: Some

Re: [Opensim-dev] Navigating the Wiki

2009-05-20 Thread Charles Krinke
P.S. Keep the questions coming, because those are all good topics that should be covered. If anyone else has any additional good questions, please chime in. I'll put them on the To Do List. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Charles Krinke c...@pacbell.net wrote: Some of the common

Re: [Opensim-dev] breaking OpenSim.ini changes

2009-05-19 Thread Charles Krinke
No, this is not talking about anything to death, Melanie. This is about writing down for others to read and understand at least *some* of what you are trying to accomplish. This can be done via blogs, wiki paragraphs, FAQ, or other. This feeling has been a long time coming, Melanie, and this

Re: [Opensim-dev] breaking OpenSim.ini changes

2009-05-19 Thread Charles Krinke
for months on end. This is another one of them. Please bear with us. Melanie Charles Krinke wrote: No, this is not talking about anything to death, Melanie. This is about writing down for others to read and understand at least *some* of what you are trying to accomplish. This can be done via

Re: [Opensim-dev] breaking OpenSim.ini changes

2009-05-19 Thread Charles Krinke
I feel that we should view trunk as our best effort at a functional code base with no guarantee. The most important thing is that it should compile. Beyond that, new checkins that add new features should be explained to the early adopters and testers that are wringing out the details and

Re: [Opensim-dev] voice meetings

2009-05-16 Thread Charles Krinke
Indeed, discussing these subjects with those on the opensim-dev mailing list in voice or text is to all of our mutual advantage. Many folks have complained to me of the way the money issue was handled and communication with the rest of the community is important to moving forward and helping

[Opensim-dev] vehicle script

2009-05-13 Thread Charles Krinke
Jeff Heaton, in his book, Introduction to Linden Scripting Language for Second Life has a vehicle script for a basic car on page 171. At the risk of irritating Jeff, I am pasting it here and hoping we can use it for a test script to wring out vehicle script functionality. It uses the LSL

Re: [Opensim-dev] 23 LSL functions remaining

2009-05-12 Thread Charles Krinke
, you cannot be a little bit pregnant, it is either 100% or nothing. Rock From: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de [opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Charles Krinke [...@pacbell.net] Sent: 12 May 2009 04:25 To: opensim-dev Subject

Re: [Opensim-dev] 23 LSL functions remaining

2009-05-12 Thread Charles Krinke
The folks on this mailing list have the power to make OpenSim more compatible with patches to the source. So, as we go forward, lets exercise that power and add the missing implementation sections of a few dozen functions *and* find the ones that are not compatible and work out the details.

Re: [Opensim-dev] 23 LSL functions remaining

2009-05-12 Thread Charles Krinke
are implemented, but I would expect that all the scripts I develop in my Opensim sandbox to work when I import them into SL. Rock From: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de [opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Charles Krinke [...@pacbell.net] Sent: 12

[Opensim-dev] 23 LSL functions remaining

2009-05-11 Thread Charles Krinke
I am asking for a few patches to complete the 23 LSL functions in our original project of more then 330. We are *almost* there, but need a little help with patches. Here is the remaining list that are still in the Not Implemented state. llRotTarget() llRotTargetRemove() llLoopSoundMaster()

Re: [Opensim-dev] moving away from grid vs. standalone

2009-04-30 Thread Charles Krinke
It is always a balance between keeping functionality in an evolving project and refactoring and experimenting. I will support and encourage refactoring and experimentation with one proviso. That proviso is a few paragraphs on the wiki giving clues to allow those deploying OpenSim what is going

Re: [Opensim-dev] moving away from grid vs. standalone

2009-04-29 Thread Charles Krinke
I would urge us to make changes to the master avatar stuff with notice and encouragement of folks to write FAQ, wiki entries, mini-apnotes and anything else that will help cut down on confusion of those who have significant effort invested into builds on existing regions. Charles

Re: [Opensim-dev] OAuth as authentication and authorisation (capability) specification

2009-04-25 Thread Charles Krinke
That is an interesting point. I think the perception by some is that we would like to have 'seamless' use of openid/oauth between various grids as folks might move from grid to grid using OGP, MXP, HG or other interop notions. So, popping up a password dialog in the midst of a teleport might be

[Opensim-dev] Closing a few Mantisi

2009-04-19 Thread Charles Krinke
In our Mantis screen is a tab for 'summary'. On that 'summary' screen are two really interesting windows. One is the 'By Date' and the other is 'Longest Open'. I would like to suggest that any patches to clear one or more of the 'Longest Open' would be greatly appreciated and would help to

Re: [Opensim-dev] The essence of grid

2009-04-17 Thread Charles Krinke
Well, Mike. I respect your opinion and the others expressed about our existing community. The community is what has gotten us to this point and it is important to listen to our community. It seems reasonable that additional features can be added to OpenSim in a somewhat cavalier fashion, and

Re: [Opensim-dev] Development models

2009-04-17 Thread Charles Krinke
Diva went out of her way to put the original HyperGrid module on the forge. After it had gained acceptance, *others* suggested to her that adding it to the core part of OpenSim would be to our advantage. We all voted on that and agreed this was the right thing to do. There are other modules

Re: [Opensim-dev] Development models (was Re: The essence of grid)

2009-04-17 Thread Charles Krinke
Well... I rather suspect we are all headed for the same place, but, ... we seem to be having some semantic 'challenges' lately. I *know* that all the hearts are in the right place on this list and that all we have to do is be understanding and supportive of each other. The thing that has

Re: [Opensim-dev] The essence of grid

2009-04-15 Thread Charles Krinke
OSGrid exists with two goals. 1. Test OpenSim SVN on a regular basis and report results to aid in software development. 2. Nurture a community. We need to start by considering that OpenSim splits the asset storage between regions and the OpenSim assetServer. So, the OpenSim asset model is a

Re: [Opensim-dev] Springs, Torques, joints , friction, questions and Vehicles oh my

2009-04-15 Thread Charles Krinke
Jeff Heaton at Heaton Research wrote a book on LSL scripting. All his scripts are available at his Heaton Research parcel on SecondLife and in the books, which are on Amazon.com. There are a couple of chapters devoted to vehicles and angular motors in making a script for a car, boat airplane.

Re: [Opensim-dev] The essence of grid

2009-04-15 Thread Charles Krinke
now. Justin Clark-Casey wrote: Charles Krinke wrote: OSGrid exists with two goals. 1. Test OpenSim SVN on a regular basis and report results to aid in software development. 2. Nurture a community. We need to start by considering that OpenSim splits the asset storage between regions

Re: [Opensim-dev] This will NEVER go away

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Krinke
Since OpenSim is not going away, perhaps this is a good time to discuss 'groups' implementations. It seems to me that getting to where we have some semblance of 'groups' in OpenSim is to our advantage and will help the various grids progress. I wonder what other thoughts there are? Charles

[Opensim-dev] funky region names?

2009-03-29 Thread Charles Krinke
I am getting some comments about region names beginning with spaces *and* region names longer then 32 characters having some side effects in map and search from OSGrid users. It makes me wonder if the grid server should have some additional constraints to trim leading spaces and names

Re: [Opensim-dev] funky region names?

2009-03-29 Thread Charles Krinke
] On Behalf Of Charles Krinke Sent: 29 March 2009 21:22 To: opensim-dev Subject: [Opensim-dev] funky region names? I am getting some comments about region names beginning with spaces *and* region names longer then 32 characters having some side effects in map and search from OSGrid users. It makes me

Re: [Opensim-dev] cosimus: a little simulator tinkerbox in Lua+C

2009-03-28 Thread Charles Krinke
Dear Andrew: I want to encourage you in your project. Our forge is intended to have projects that are of relevance to the OpenSim context and I would think that this certainly qualifies. The trick is going to be to get *something* working *sortof* and then having others use that work and test

Re: [Opensim-dev] Graceful failure or down grading for scripting.

2009-03-27 Thread Charles Krinke
Well, it seems to me that we are OpenSim and not SecondLife and that it is entirely appropriate for our osFunctions() to be enabled by default in our OpenSim.ini file. So, I am pro this idea. Charles From: Melanie mela...@t-data.com To:

[Opensim-dev] 24 LSL functions left

2009-03-22 Thread Charles Krinke
There are 24 LSL functions left in the NotImplemented state of the more then 330 we started with a little over a year ago. The 24 are: llRotTarget(), llRotTargetRemove() llLoopSoundMaster(), llLoopSoundSlave(), llPlaySoundSlave() llStopLookAt(), llCollisionFilter(), llAttachToAvatar(),

[Opensim-dev] Memory Leak and stats

2009-03-18 Thread Charles Krinke
One of the nagging problems we have appears to be memory leaks. There are consistent and frustrating reports of more heavily used regions using up all the RAM, then starting swap, then lagging, then freezing every week. In order to help bring a little clarity to this, Nebadon has put together:

Re: [Opensim-dev] machine performance stats for grids

2009-03-09 Thread Charles Krinke
Dear Paul: There is a page on opensimulator.org for grids and all are encouraged to describe statistics for their grids. In addition, all of the 60 or so grids on that page have their own sub-page to describe statistics and some do. Also, some use the loginscreen to read contents of various

Re: [Opensim-dev] OGP/Capabilities

2009-03-03 Thread Charles Krinke
If I recall correctly, and I might be wrong, but the conversation I had with the lindens about OGP had them focused on their AgentDomain. Sort of a super grid server if you will. When quizzed about a full handoff, they said we arent working on that. So, my impression about OGP is it extends

Re: [Opensim-dev] Virtual World Educators Conference

2009-03-01 Thread Charles Krinke
and it is going very well. The students are even asking for additional homework, which I would submit is a good measure of the success of a course. Charles Krinke From: Rich White rich.lynn.wh...@gmail.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Sunday, March 1

Re: [Opensim-dev] User Authentication

2009-02-23 Thread Charles Krinke
folks to test it *before* I get up one morning and find Wright Plaza is a smoking hole in the ground. Charles Krinke From: Diva Canto d...@metaverseink.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:47:19 AM Subject: [Opensim-dev] User

Re: [Opensim-dev] [REX] [Fwd: User Authentication]

2009-02-23 Thread Charles Krinke
not enough to know that osgrid.org http://osgrid.org/ has a user named Charles Krinke, and we certainly don't want Charles to be constantly typing his password everytime he moves; the region needs to know that this user is already

Re: [Opensim-dev] MXPClient?

2009-02-22 Thread Charles Krinke
We also have the issue of a modal dialog box that recently started coming up in VS2008 Express saying Solution folders are not supported in this version of the application. Solution folder 'Solution Files' will be displayed as unavailable. I think this is an extension beyond what the Express

[Opensim-dev] Mantis#3148

2009-02-21 Thread Charles Krinke
Mantis#3148 from Chillken is languishing a bit. Since it touches 18 important files, I am reticient to apply it without a second +1. I wonder if Justin, Mw, Lbsa, Adam or SDague might look at it, please. Charles ___ Opensim-dev mailing list

Re: [Opensim-dev] Any OpenSim viewers being built from scratch?

2009-02-16 Thread Charles Krinke
Dear Mike: As Dahlia said, the IdealistViewer is a good candidate as it begins to add features. Many of us have high hopes for IdealistViewer during the course of this year. As OpenSim, we have decided to stay in SecondLife viewer compatible so we are measuring the operation and performance

Re: [Opensim-dev] Groups in OpenSim

2009-02-15 Thread Charles Krinke
Personally, I would suggest that groups is an enabling technology and I would concur that seperating economy notions from groups is a good thing. For groups functionality, the ability to form groups and have group communicaton similar to our IRC channels currently would go a long ways to

[Opensim-dev] AssetServer Observations and Suggestions

2009-02-08 Thread Charles Krinke
We have been studying the assets table on OSGrid as it heads toward the disk full stage and I have a couple of observations and am heading towards a suggestion. Maybe this is already accounted for in the Cable Beach project, at which point, this will only indicate that I did not read all the

Re: [Opensim-dev] TSB Feasibility Study: Online Virtual Worlds for Urban Regeneration Consultation

2009-01-29 Thread Charles Krinke
Dear Mic: I have heard from many folks that realistic terrain is an objective for a number of projects to represent real-life regions in a simulation, so I would vote +1 for any class, written details, tutorial, demo *or* whatever might get this knowledge spread around the Metaverse a bit.

Re: [Opensim-dev] Proposal for a cleanup/correction of the region-module system

2009-01-24 Thread Charles Krinke
ROFL. Oh, it was the 'z' versus the 's' you were discussing. I thought it was the i versus the I. From: Dahlia Trimble dahliatrim...@gmail.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 4:39:03 PM Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Proposal for

Re: [Opensim-dev] new Mono

2009-01-22 Thread Charles Krinke
+1 Sean. And to add, most of the testers are using mono-2.0.1 currently. That is, those that are testing with svn trunk. Everytime we update mono, there is a period of trauma, so we are trying to move as fast as practical, but consider the fact that there are thousands of deployments of

Re: [Opensim-dev] Console Log Colours for Messages

2009-01-19 Thread Charles Krinke
Just weighing in a little bit. I personally dont have any bias one way or the other on colors. Charles From: Ai Austin ai.ai.aus...@googlemail.com To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 1:35:08 PM Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Console

[Opensim-dev] 0.6.2 minor release

2009-01-17 Thread Charles Krinke
Reports are good on the current trunk stability, so we just tagged r8067 as r8068. This means that r8068 is the 0.6.2 release. A binary build is being prepared by Nebadon and will be available on the osgrid.org and opensimulator.org web site a little bit later today. Good work everyone for

Re: [Opensim-dev] Opensim database management - garbage collection

2009-01-15 Thread Charles Krinke
The integers for create_time and access_time are epoch times, where the beginning of the epoch is 1/1/70. To convert one uses the mysql function from_unixtime(create_time) or from_unixtime(access_time) to see a YY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS format. On OSGrid, we now have about 1,000,000 entries in the