It may be possible to reintroduce this if someone wants to implement a Python hookup for OpenSim scripting (I'm sure it can't be too hard).
Might be possible to import wholesale from modrex
See http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=4395
Thanks mpallari
* Replaced calls to ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem() with ThreadPool.UnsafeQueueUserWorkItem() since OpenSim does not use Code Access Security sandboxing
* Added some missing implementations of IClientAPI.RemoteEndPoint
* Added a ClientManager.Remove(UUID) overload
* Removed a reference to a missing project from prebuild.xml
* Removed the confusing (and LL-specific) shutdowncircuit parameter from IClientAPI.Close()
* Updated the LLUDP code to only use ClientManager instead of trying to synchronize ClientManager and m_clients
* Remove clients asynchronously since it is a very slow operation (including a 2000ms sleep)
* Clients are no longer disconnected when a packet handler crashes. We'll see how this works out in practice
* Added documentation and cleanup, getting ready for the first public push
* Deleted an old LLUDP file
* Re-added openjpeg-dotnet files since they are used elsewhere in OpenSim * Updated prebuild.xml with a reference to CSJ2K
* Renamed IJ2KDecoder and J2KDecoder member names to follow standard naming conventions * Removed j2kDecodeCache cruft and replaced it with the OpenSim cache system * Rewrote the default layer boundary algorithm to use percentages instead of an exponent * Switched from an infinite in-memory cache to an expiring cache (10 minute timeout) * Slightly quieted logging errors for failed texture decodes
Replacing openjpeg-dotnet decoding with managed CSJ2K decoding. Should be much more reliable, faster, and use less memory
* Re-added openjpeg-dotnet files since they are used elsewhere in OpenSim * Updated prebuild.xml with a reference to CSJ2K
for OpenSIm scripts. It makes it very easy to address
coding issues before going in-world to try a script
out. This is a HUGE time saver if you're doing
anything significant with scripts.
Signed-off-by: dr scofield (aka dirk husemann) <drscofield@xyzzyxyzzy.net>
* This time it might be the listening socket thread from HttpServer aborting with a non blocking thread abort exception. Hopefully calling Stop() on MainServer.Instance will solve that.
http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=4040 by jhurliman. The patch didn't match up, so I winged it here. My effort to manually merge the patch seems to make sense, so I'm going to commit it.
upstream and the reference implementation to the point where it is no
longer usable. It has no known users, and sinnce it doesn't work anymore,
it is safe to assume that no one has used it in a long time.
startup. To use, run it normally once, answering the questions, then
run again with -console=rest.
Also now supports -console=basic for a console that reads stdin
* Sets the assembly target of all projects to .NET 3.5. I was asked to apply this by Diva to resolve a build issue with LinQ on Visual Studio 2008 but I have not tested it personally.
Several improvements in the connectors themselves.
Several improvements in configurations.
Needed to add a hack in IUserService and UserManagerBase, to be removed when that service is refactored.
region modules. This was needed because the stand alone and grid modules weren't deleting
old scenes, which caused an issue when deleting and recreating a region with same name
on same x,y coordinates. Tested it on standalone and issue is fixed. Requires prebuild
to be run again.
Fixes Mantis #3699
exe for each function, rather each function is a connector and the server ini
loads them. If you like your multiple processes, use -inifile with the server.
Otherwise, you get one server process that serves all configured funcions, see
example .ini. The new exe is OpenSim.Server.exe. Clean your bin, loads of names
have changed!
This may break a lot of things, but it needs to go in. It was tested in standalone and the UCI grid, but it needs a lot more testing.
Known problems:
* HG asset transfers are borked for now
* missing texture is missing
* 3 unit tests commented out for now
* Create the OpenSim.Region.ReplaceableModules namespace for modules that we intend to have people replace (see readme)
* Create the OpenSim.Region.ReplaceableModules.MoneyModule namespace
* Put our current Sample MoneyModule in this namespace. (more modifications here next commit)
- Adds an admin_modify_region call to allow changing of parcel voice
settings and changing of public/private status
- add boolean "public" and boolean "enable_voice" to
admin_create_region XmlRpc call to allow specifying of
public/private status and to allow enabling voice for all parcels;
also added config variables to allow setting of defaults for those
- fixing cut-and-paste artefacts
Added is a patch that adds a rough Groups implementation. This patch allows
the creation, adding and maintaining Groups, Roles and Members. Work has begun
on a very naive implementation of messaging, and minimal support for notifications
{no attachments yet}. Proposals are not yet supported, but are on the to-do list.
This implementation is not active by default, and must be configured in
OpenSim.ini to become active.
- Change several classes to use the new plugin for handling of region-modules
(NOTE: No regionmodule is using this yet)
- Add necessary prebuild parts (don't forget to runprebuild)
Attention: Work in progress. This shouldn't break anything, but you never know...
* It's not ready to try. It doesn't do what you expect in many ways.
* It throws errors and prints jibberish on the console
* Test it out only if you're brave and you've backed up first.
* The opensim.ini line is physics = BulletDotNETPlugin
With some support from HomerH, this patch adds support for Wind
Model plugins via the mono.Addin framework.
* Adds console & OSSL access to Wind Parameters
* Adds plug-in support for custom wind models
* Provides two example Wind Model plug-ins
Documentation for the wind module is temporarily located at http://code.google.com/p/flotsam/wiki/CoreWindModule [^]
-- will move this documentation to http://opensimulator.org [^]
after the patch has been committed.
* Important: HttpServer.dll was changed to HttpServer_OpenSim.dll so that the HttpServer references do not conflict if you've copied the OpenMetaverse.Http.dll and requirements to the OpenSimulator bin folder.
This means that if you reference HttpServer.dll in any projects, you will need to change the reference to HttpServer_OpenSim.dll. It still uses the Same HttpServer namespace though.
- move a couple constants from InventoryArchiveConstants to
ArchiveConstants, now only one of these is needed
- change InventoryArchiveConstants references to ArchiveConstants
- remove InventoryArchive AssetInventoryServer plugin dependency on
OpenSim.Region.CodeModules
- trim trailing whitespace
This plugin exposes an HTTP handler on the AssetInventoryServer which
serves a gzipped tar file containing the contents of a user's inventory.
The assets referenced by the inventory are not yet archived. At the
moment only export functionality is implemented, restore functionality
is missing.
prebuild.xml had to be shuffled around a bit in order for the plugin to
build, as it has a dependency on OpenSim.Region.CoreModules.
Also, close a MemoryStream in a few places.
Changed OpenSim.Framework.Communications.Tests.LoginServiceTests to use the LLStandaloneLoginService (from the LLStandaloneLoginModule) rather than LocalLoginService. Really these login tests should most likely be somewhere else as they are testing specific implementations of login services.
Commented out the old LocalLoginService as its no longer used, but want to check there are no problems before it gets deleted.
This class handles all the initialising of the grid server.
And made GridServer into basically a generic server that just loads plugins.
So this is a step towards having a generic server that loads service modules.
isn't tested, but it doesn't break anything else. The reason for this
function is to let in world tools be used to coordiante out of world
network services that need access to client ip addresses.
Also in that plugin it registers the IUserService with all the Scenes (as they are created). So now we can start changing over all uses of IUserService, that currently access it from the CommunicationsManager to accessing it from the Scene.RequestModuleInterface call.
Once that is done we can move the UserService creation out to its own plugin and remove all references to it from the CommunicationsManager. Then we can take the next CommunicationsManager interface and repeat.
* Updated MXP to contain extension fragment with prims and updated MXPClientView to fill in the parameters.
* Added google protobuffers dll.
* Update MXP dll.
* Updated MXPClientView to send prim parameters as Perception event extension
* Started OpenSim and connected with IdealistViewer via MXP and ensured from log that parameters are being sent.
* Ensured that nant test target runs succesfully.
This closes mantis #3229. Thanks, tlaukkan!
Added OpenSim.Grid.UserServer.Modules project/dll which now contains the components of the userserver. With the OpenSim.Grid.UserServer being the setup and initiate exe.
* Added log4net dependency to physxplugin in prebuild.xml.
* Added missing m_log fields to classes.
* Replaced Console.WriteLine with appropriate m_log.Xxxx
* Tested that nant test target runs succesfully.
* Tested that local opensim sandbox starts up without errors.
* Handled via the MXPModule.cs located in OpenSim.Client.MXP namespace.
* Also implements MXPClientView and MXPPacketServer for IClientAPI compatibility.
* No changes were required to Core to implement this - the thing is self contained in OpenSim.Client.MXP.dll.
* Includes reference implementation of MXP as MXP.dll - this is under the Apache 2.0 license.
* Requires OpenSim.ini setting to enable. "[MXP] \n Enabled=true \n Port=1253"
* May break. Highly untested.
* Consequentially, dropped Prebuild solution from Prebuild.xml as the 1.7 schema does not allow for more than one solution per xml file. (*rolls eyes*)
* Something that thus needs fixing is the fact that ProjectReferences has to be marked
<ProjectReference>
<Private>False</Private>
</ProjectReference>
but that is not configurable in the upstream Xml Schema. I've hardcoded it in our repo for now.
* Applied upstreams changes to allow for auditing and debugging in our various environments.
* This should, in theory, bring back 'multiple ref dirs'.
* Temporarily Removed xmlns because prebuild-1.7 schema does not allow for multiple solutions per prebuild node (This will be a moot issue once the Prebuild node is moved out of prebuild.xml)
* Autotools target: Various minor fixes
* MonoDevelop Target : No changes.
* Nant Target: Various minor fixes, support for net-3.5 and mono-2.0/3.5 targets
* Sharpdevelop targets: No changes.
* VS Targets: Refactored into using VSGenericTarget, and supports 2.0-3.5
* XCode Target: No changes.
--- Regressions and outstanding issues ---
* The Solution is assigned a random Guid - will lead to unnecessary reloads and loss of user settings.
--- New features of Prebuild 2.0.4 ---
* (Better) support for Web, WinForms and Database Projects and build actions
* Conditional Framework Version compilation support (1.1, 2.0-3.5)
* ArrayList -> List<>, ICollection -> IList
(this means Prebuild can generate 1.1 solutions, but can't itself be built under 1.1 - how very meta)
* Added <?include file="sub_prebuild.xml" ?> preprocessor directive.
The change makes two principal implementation changes:
[1] It removes the hard coded set of possible asset server client
implementations, allowing any arbitrary implementation that has been
identified to the PluginLoader as an appropriate extension. The
extension point for asset server client extension
is /OpenSim/AssetServerClient. All of the old configuration rules have
been preserved, and any of the legacy configuration values will still
work as they did before, except the implementation is now loaded as a
plug-in, rather than as a hard-coded instantiation of a specific class.
The re-hashing of IAssetServer as an extension of IPlugin made upgrading
of the implementation classes a necessity.
Caveat: I have not been able to meaningfully test the crypto-grid
clients. I believe they should work correctly, but the refactoring
necessary to handle plug-in based initialization (vs constructor-based
initialisation) admits the possibility of a problem.
[2] The asset cache implementation, previously introduce as a hard-code
class instantiation is now implemented as an IPlugin. Once again the
previous (configurationless) behavior has been preserved. But now it is
possible for those interested in experimenting with cache technologies
to do so simply by introducing a new extension for the asset cache
extension point (/OpenSim/AssetCache).
I've tested all of the configuration settings, after applying the patch
to a newly extracted tree, and they seem to work OK.
OpenSim.Framework.AssetMetadata and related updates in AssetInventory
server
- removed dependency on MySql.Data.MySqlClient
- commented out the bulk of OpenSimInventoryStorage due to missing
MySql.Data dependency
- refactor asset creation in OpenSimAssetFrontend
- commented out ForEach implementation, which also depended on
MySql.Data, until it's supported by OpenSim backends
- commented out some handlers in BrowseFrontend and ReferenceFrontend as
they relied on either ForEach or the removed Metadata class
NOTHING has been deleted or moved off to forge at this point. what
has happened is that OpenSim.Region.Environment.Modules has been split
in two:
- OpenSim.Region.CoreModules: all those modules that are either
directly or indirectly referenced from other OpenSim packages, or
that provide functionality that the OpenSim developer community
considers core functionality:
CoreModules/Agent/AssetTransaction
CoreModules/Agent/Capabilities
CoreModules/Agent/TextureDownload
CoreModules/Agent/TextureSender
CoreModules/Agent/TextureSender/Tests
CoreModules/Agent/Xfer
CoreModules/Avatar/AvatarFactory
CoreModules/Avatar/Chat/ChatModule
CoreModules/Avatar/Combat
CoreModules/Avatar/Currency/SampleMoney
CoreModules/Avatar/Dialog
CoreModules/Avatar/Friends
CoreModules/Avatar/Gestures
CoreModules/Avatar/Groups
CoreModules/Avatar/InstantMessage
CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory
CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Archiver
CoreModules/Avatar/Inventory/Transfer
CoreModules/Avatar/Lure
CoreModules/Avatar/ObjectCaps
CoreModules/Avatar/Profiles
CoreModules/Communications/Local
CoreModules/Communications/REST
CoreModules/Framework/EventQueue
CoreModules/Framework/InterfaceCommander
CoreModules/Hypergrid
CoreModules/InterGrid
CoreModules/Scripting/DynamicTexture
CoreModules/Scripting/EMailModules
CoreModules/Scripting/HttpRequest
CoreModules/Scripting/LoadImageURL
CoreModules/Scripting/VectorRender
CoreModules/Scripting/WorldComm
CoreModules/Scripting/XMLRPC
CoreModules/World/Archiver
CoreModules/World/Archiver/Tests
CoreModules/World/Estate
CoreModules/World/Land
CoreModules/World/Permissions
CoreModules/World/Serialiser
CoreModules/World/Sound
CoreModules/World/Sun
CoreModules/World/Terrain
CoreModules/World/Terrain/DefaultEffects
CoreModules/World/Terrain/DefaultEffects/bin
CoreModules/World/Terrain/DefaultEffects/bin/Debug
CoreModules/World/Terrain/Effects
CoreModules/World/Terrain/FileLoaders
CoreModules/World/Terrain/FloodBrushes
CoreModules/World/Terrain/PaintBrushes
CoreModules/World/Terrain/Tests
CoreModules/World/Vegetation
CoreModules/World/Wind
CoreModules/World/WorldMap
- OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules: all those modules that are not core
modules:
OptionalModules/Avatar/Chat/IRC-stuff
OptionalModules/Avatar/Concierge
OptionalModules/Avatar/Voice/AsterixVoice
OptionalModules/Avatar/Voice/SIPVoice
OptionalModules/ContentManagementSystem
OptionalModules/Grid/Interregion
OptionalModules/Python
OptionalModules/SvnSerialiser
OptionalModules/World/NPC
OptionalModules/World/TreePopulator
Created nunit test for LSL API and example test for
llAngleBetween which was marked untested in wiki.
Run new test succesfully with NUnitGUI and nant build.
OpenSim.Region.Environment into a "framework" part and a modules only
part. This first changeset refactors OpenSim.Region.Environment.Scenes,
OpenSim.Region.Environment.Interfaces, and OpenSim.Region.Interfaces
into OpenSim.Region.Framework.{Interfaces,Scenes} leaving only region
modules in OpenSim.Region.Environment.
The next step will be to move region modules up from
OpenSim.Region.Environment.Modules to OpenSim.Region.CoreModules and
then sort out which modules are really core modules and which should
move out to forge.
I've been very careful to NOT BREAK anything. i hope i've
succeeded. as this is the work of a whole week i hope i managed to
keep track with the applied patches of the last week --- could any of
you that did check in stuff have a look at whether it survived? thx!
* Added Npgsql.dll and Mono.Security.dll which are NpgsqlDriver dlls.
* Added missing field to schema creation scripts: PathTaperY.
* Added schema creation scripts for PostgreSQL.
* Added unit test classes for PostgreSQL.
* Added schema creation script folder to NHibernate project in prebuild.xml
* Added Npgsql.dll to NHibernate test project dependencies in prebuild.xml
* Ensured that build works with both nant and Visual Studio.
* Executed build unit tests with nant and NHibernate unit tests with NUnitGUI
- Couple of region tests fail due to double precission float rounding errors need to sort out how these are handles in unit tests and if higher precission numeric field needs to be used in Postgresql.
sceneB
* However, I'm not convinced that the actual process in the test completely reflects reality, and a lot of stuff had to be rigged up (which should get resolved over time)
Fixed all NHibernate unit tests by implementing missing persistency
methods, tables, columns and fixing bugs in the existing implementation.
Two minor changes to classes outside NHibernate module: Added Scene
instantiation for SceneObjectGroup in OpenSim.Data.Tests.BasicRegionTest
as this was required by the NHibernate persistency. In the process added
also mock constructor to Scene which only populates RegionInfo in the scene
which is used by ScenePart.RegionUUID. NHibernate module is still in
experimental state and has not been tested at opensim region or ugaim runtime
configuration. Adding unit tests to build is not yet advisable nor using
NHibernate module in any production setup.
* Adds a prototype web stats module which is disabled by default. It's functional with one report right now, however, the database structure may change, so I don't recommend enabling this to keep actual stats right now. I'll let you know when it's safe.
* Adds Prototype for ajaxy web content
* removed a warning or two.
* This means that UserProfileCacheService no longer needs to know about IClientAPI and can leave it to callers to do their own error logging
* This is also more consistent with the way that item inventory manipulation is handled
* I don't really think Scene.PacketHandlers.cs should be a permanent home for these handlers - this is just for convenience
* This patch gets NHibernate working
*** PLEASE NOTE: This patch now requires the libmono-oracle2.0-cil library to be installed on Ubuntu (to stop the System.Data.Oracle missing failure) ***
* Not sure what the dependency is on other distros. Adding this info to http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Build_Instructions would be most welcome
* Adds Castle.* libraries that were missing last time (note, dlls have been added from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/nhibernate/NHibernate-2.0.1.GA-bin.zip)
* This is Diva's hypergrid patch, as perviously discussed on the opensim-dev mailing list
* Applied some minor prebuild.xml jiggling to resolve a dependency issue
* Thanks Diva!
release a direct descendant of the stable 7364, with all the features and
none of the issues.
This omits the following patch chain: r7383 r7382 r7381 r7377 r7375 r7373
r7372 r7370 r7369 r7368 r7367 r7366
* Items will now be locally cached for only 24 hours from last access. (Rather than until restart)
* Caveat: Implementing the new caching mechanism means statistics gathering on AssetCache is no longer functional. (Justin - you might want to take a look and see if you can somehow get that back and running if you still need it)
SQLite reports System NUll Reference, but works, inside
LoadItems, on SQLiteRegionData.cs
From: Arthur Rodrigo S Valadares <arthursv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* Updated MSSQL to reflect resend changes
* Added the new columns in prims table.
* Created a implementation for getting gestures.
* Remove configurable table names for user.
* Thanks Ruud Lathorp
The binaries are still different, but that is only a small step away now.
The OSSLPrim has been removed. This commit will breal all scripts
using Prim.Scale(), etc, syntax. It was not secure and will have to
be brought back in another form.
adapted to the new HttpServer.dll --- thx to dahlia for checking the
new HttpServer code in and it's my fault that the build didn't suceed,
well, actually, i blame it on our IP legal nazghuls... ;-)
and makes it use a common set of types in both engine. Fixes the issues with
running both engines and HTTP requests / listens / timers etc..
Also fixes a couple of minor Scene issues and a CTB by nullref.
of the types, located in OpenSim/Region/ScriptEngines/Shared/LSL_Tyoes.cs
Also changes the compiler in DotNetEngine to use that. You _will_ need to
let your region recompile all your scripts!
ordinary region modules and are able to coexist in one instance.
See http://opensimulator.org/wiki/ScriptEngines for details. There were
changes to OpenSim.ini.example, please note DefaultScriptEngine.
Also see the User docs and FAQ on the Wiki. Default is DotNetEngine.
XEngine fixes: prevent queue overruns, prevent spamming when no key
is down. Release controls when conflicting permissions are requested
or permissions are refused later. Release when prim or script are deleted.
Fixes Scene script instance deletion semantics.
OpenSim.Data.Tests, then subclass with custom init bits for sqlite.
As I've only been testing the plugin interfaces anyway, this should
make it very easy to write only a little bit of code to use these
tests for other databases. It will also give us the framework for
definining the datastore behavior and making sure that all the databases
do the same thing.
Floating text, Rotation, Texture animation, Particle System
This will make "Eye Candy" scripts work without modification in
XEngine. The use of the CHANGED_REGION_RESTART hack is no longer
needed. Implemented in MySQL only, hovertext also in SQLite.
* This is a HUGE OMG update and will definitely have unknown side effects.. so this is really only for the strong hearted at this point. Regular people should let the dust settle.
* This has been tested to work with most basic functions. However.. make sure you back up 'everything' before using this. It's that big!
* Essentially we're back at square 1 in the testing phase.. so lets identify things that broke.
engines that want to use the XEngine's instance handling and state
persistence can do so. IScriptInstance is optional, but it does
require the SmartThreadPool if it is used.
It is now possible to use module interfaces without referencing Scene.
Place those interfaces in OpenSim/Region/Interfaces. They may not
use any refs from OpenSim.Region.Environment as parameters.
This resolves a circular library ref introduced in r5949
out everything in the [GridInfo] section :-D Also, not yet LLSD but
XmlRpc, LLSD via GET will follow. OpenSim.ini.example contains sample
values and explanation. Oh, and default values provided are
platform: OpenSim
mode: standalone | grid
have fun.
* refactored some member names for readability and ccc (code convention conformance)
* took away two refs from Rest.Inventory since
* System.IO is part of System
* System.Xml.Serialization is part of System.Xml
This patch limits the maximum size of prims that can be created using libsl bots
or modified clients to 65536mper side. It also limits LSL functions to that size.
If a prim is already physical, the enforced constraint is 10m.
A prim that is larger than 10m cannot be turned physical, either via script or UI.
Linksets are handled correctly, so scaling of physical linksets is constrained by
the size of it's largest component prim. Also, turning linksets physical is based
on the size of it's largest ptim.
datastore tucked down in the Region namespace. This is based on
the assumption that OpenSim.Data.MSSQL is what is actually used by
anyone, and prevents us from having to refactor 2 different MSSQL store
paths when futzing with SOP functions.
Currently module loading is done ad-hoc. I propose creating a simple
loader class that leverages Mono.Addins (and perhaps the new .NET
addins when they become available in mono). Attached is a basic
patch for review that compiles into HEAD, but doesn't yet replace
any existing ad-hoc loaders.
"First stage in a major Script Engine refactor, that will result in the LSL implementaions ebing reconverged. Not there yet, but one major part is done."
Thank you, Melanie!
changes it wouldn't come up).
include embedded dialect specific sql files for nhibernate migrations
figure out how to get the raw db connection so that migrations can
work with nhibernate.
create initial migration for NHibernate + SQLite + Assets.
* This is the same string as printed out on the opensim region console at startup, so it should now include the svn revision number (if available)
* This dialog box takes an awful long time to come up on my local system - no idea why that is. However, that also seems to have been the case before this revision.
* The main purpose of this is to provide configuration options for ODE and other physics plug-ins that are advanced enough to be able to be configured.
* In theory, this should be a somewhat useless statistic since the user server will already have tried to use the inventory service to retrieve the avatar's skeleton. If this
fails, login is halted completely.
* Nonetheless I'm recording it anyway just to see whether it happens (yes, I'm too lazy to scan the logs...)
the attached patch set adds the (still work-in-progress but already
working) RestPlugin base class and the RestRegionPlugin code. we are using
XML serialization.
currently working:
GET /admin/regions/ -> returns UUID list of known regions
GET /admin/regions/<UUID> -> returns detailed region information
we'll be adding support for POST/DELETE/PUT and also for
/admin/regions/<UUID>/name etc.
* If the status cannot be retrieved, then the region startup will terminate.
* The aim of this is for earlier detection of situations where the region can send messages out but cannot accept incoming requests (often due to firewall issues)
* This is currently an extremely simplistic check which completely trusts whatever http uri is given by the region
* This contact may be problematic, though since the user service needs to be able to contact the region http uri, it doesn't seem unreasonable for the grid to have to be able to do so too at this stage
* This change will require a prebuild
* Added shell of new Python scripting engine. Similar in design to the one used by Rex, but will be structured at a region rather than object level, also is a region module.
* Interfaces and methods have been defined for basic operation, however a replacement grid module is required to share region URIs with neighbours for this module to work.
* Tackling that next.
This is a module which allows you to periodically export a serialised version of your region to a SVN repository and store it there. It is still a work in progress and is currently disabled and incomplete, but some of the functionality is demonstratable.
* Enjoy.
* Added the new mapper to the mapper factory
* Made choice of mapper configurable
* This means, in hteory, that we can persist avatar appearance on MSSQL as well
* This module more or less crashes every region in the instance if you enable it by moving it from local /bin to global /bin
* But hey, it crashes in lots of interesting ways.
Melanie