[sldev] Python indra libs

Ryan Williams (Which) rdw at lindenlab.com
Wed May 7 18:44:35 PDT 2008


Domino Marama wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:04 -0700, Ryan Williams (Which) wrote:
>> Domino Marama wrote:
>>> Are the python modules in "linden/indra/lib/python/indra" actually
>>> installed anywhere?
>>>
>>> These seem like they should be separate from the main client source and
>>> ideally available via easy_install (.egg) for Python development of
>>> client utilities.
>> The llsd library could be packaged up on its own, but realistically the 
>> rest of them mostly constitute miscellaneous libraries.  We could 
>> technically package them up in one ugly bundle, but it doesn't seem like 
>> anyone would use them in that form.
> 
> Fair enough, though I suspect more people would use them in that form than hidden away in the viewer source ;)
> 
>> I'm even a little uncomfortable with packaging up llsd.py because the 
>> API is not so good and I don't want to even imply that we're not gonna 
>> muck with it.  :-)
> 
> No worries. I'll just pull out the bits I need then. Might be better for
> me as I can possibly get away with the cut down Python in Blender that
> way.

Cool beans.  I do agree we should clean them up, and package them for 
easier consumption.  We will eventually.  :-)

-RYaN


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