On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:02 PM, <d...@metaverseink.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just an quick message to let you know about the status of the > refactoring, and to ask for help in some parts. > > Between Christmas and now, Melanie and I have re-engineered the way that > OpenSim handles users, agents, and avatars, and the persistent data > associated with all of these. This is the final push on the refactoring > (and improvement) work that started back in May. This last piece of the > work is being done in the branch presence-refactor. > > There are several new services that correspond to breaking up the user > server into smaller pieces, i.e. things that the user server already did > but in very awkward manner. Namely: user accounts (it's just that, > accounts), authentication (manages passwords, auth tokens and the like), > presence (knows where agents are), avatar (manages the 'carcass') and > friends (social net basics). All of these have been made fairly generic, > and this will enable a whole new level of extending OpenSim. For > example, strings are used in important identifiers instead of UUIDs. > > Additionally, what was previously known as "Interregion Comms" (Local > and REST) is now a simulation service provided by the sims. This last > service makes agent transfers consistent throughout their existence -- > login and TPs -- and allows for future alternative ways of driving agents. > > ETA on merging this with master branch is next weekend. I think we're on > track to have OpenSim 0.7 sometime in January. This will also allow us > to start taking security seriously right after 0.7 is tagged. > > I encourage you to check out the branch and, at least, look through > OpenSim.Services.Interfaces, which now tell the story quite well. The > really brave can try it out on test grids/standalones. (Please use test > grids/DBs only for the time being!) Notice the configuration files which > now have a lot more in them. NOTE: only works for MySQL at the moment. > > This leads me to the asking-for-help part. The DB schema has changed > substantially. We have been doing this with MySql. We need help to make > the same changes to SQLite and MSSQL, if these are to be supported from > here on. I know we can count on StrawberryFride to update the MSSQL > connector. However, for SQLite... it has been falling through the > cracks. There is already a show-stopper bug in it that makes the SQLite > connector not work with mono 2.4.3 and higher > (http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=4463). Unless someone steps > in and takes care of the SQLite connector, I'm afraid it will go the way > of the dinosaurs. > > Thanks! > > Diva / Canto
Excellent work Mel and Diva! The next step in making OS _the_ platform for novel VW applications. Cheers, _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev