[sldev] Opening the server source?

[Mike Monkowski]

Adam Frisby wrote:
> In terms of scripting / physics engines - you still need to be able to 
> upload and compile, and once you are allowing that, you open a big can 
> of worms with security, doing it without opening that would be a very 
> interesting challenge.

I understand that scripts could be visible to the private sims, but 
they're just assets served up by another server.  If you don't want your 
scripts sent to private sims, it would be just as easy as making them 
non-editable now.  Just another flag in a database.

The upload part I don't understand, though.  You would upload through 
the LL transaction server, not the physics/scripting server. The 
physics/scripting server would also get the objects through the LL 
transaction server.  The viewer would in turn receive objects from the 
physics/scripting server.  Presumably, the server would have a local 
cache, so the viewer wouldn't see the fetch lag for objects that are 
resident to the sim.

Mike