See http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-77 This has been stagnant for too long (incidentally, it was brought up at yesterday's Snowglobe meeting.)
I think the way forward is standardizing this in a way that allows opensim to implement it, not going back to UDP, region-local map tiles. SNOW-77 has a patch attached that handles using a capability to find the base url for the map tiles, but still sticks to assumptions about the url structure. I added a comment there last December, and will repeat it here, that I think the grid should not just tell the viewer about the base url, but send a template to prevent depending on a rigid url structure. This looks like something RUSS can be used for, but that has a dire warning about security implications of using an untrusted format string: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Recursive_URL_Substitution_Syntax I don't know if this is a problem here (is it?), but I think we should find *some* way to prevent hard-coding the url structure in the viewer. On Friday 30 April 2010 14:00:43 Tateru Nino wrote: > The most obvious solution - from where I'm sitting - is to abstract it, > and provide different access methods underneath. The higher levels of > the viewer application should neither know nor care just where the map > tiles are coming from, beyond making an API call to fetch one. Later, > one can look at a method by which a grid service might make certain > representations as to where and how those tiles are located and to be > fetched, but compartmentalizing the hard-wired knowledge (at this stage) > seems to be the best option, presently. > > On 30/04/2010 8:20 PM, Lance Corrimal wrote: > > "patching opensim"... > > > > ...how do you "patch" the people who provide a service for free, to make > > them rent an expensive distributed storage provider for their map tiles? > > are you going to rent S3 yourself, for your own little local grid? -- Thickbrick _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
