Justin Clark-Casey wrote: > Dr Scofield wrote: >> i've been looking at where region modules live in our source tree --- >> OpenSim/Region/Modules and OpenSim/Region/Environment/Modules --- and >> how they get bundled: >> >> * modules in OpenSim/Region/Modules get their own private DLL >> * OpenSim/Region/Environment/Modules get lumped into ONE gigantic DLL >> >> off the 3 modules living in OpenSim/Region/Modules 2 might be good >> candidate for forge project: python and SvnSerializer. the third really >> belongs to the Terrain region module and seems to contain the default >> terrain effects. >> >> i think it would make sense to >> >> * have all region modules living in the same neighborhood (i'd >> prefer OpenSim/Region/Modules), the current layout is a bit confusing > > Don't we need to make a distinction between 'service' modules (such as the > REST module) and scene/environment modules > though? The former are not attached to a scene (and may well never be > concerned with scene code) while the latter are > very much scene related.
that would be another step. first i'd like to get the modules settled in the same neighborhood. > >> * break up the region module super-DLL so that each region module >> gets a DLL of its own > > At least on mono, I'm guessing that this would vastly expand build times. > Certainly at the moment, each invocation of > mono to build a new assembly appears to take far longer than building many > files in a single dll. vastly? > > I also tend to think of the current modules in > OpenSim/Region/Environment/Modules as fairly core modules that one would > expect to be packaged together, and which it would be inconvenient to split > up. hmm...that kind of goes against the idea of them being modules, i'd think :-) -- dr dirk husemann ---- virtual worlds research ---- ibm zurich research lab SL: dr scofield ---- drscofi...@xyzzyxyzzy.net ---- http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/ RL: h...@zurich.ibm.com - +41 44 724 8573 - http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~hud/ _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
