[Opensim-dev] Towards 0.5, what's left?

[Gary Chernega]

        If the Texture Data is encapsulated within the XML file it would 
lead to very large XML files with repetitive data. Perhaps a dual strategy 
here? Command line option to include the TextureEntry and data within the 
XML, or write the geometry and texture all to a single directory. Loading 
would use the same scheme.

Brief outline:

Form 1-
        save-xml file <xml-file>
                This form saves everything in a single XML file. This is 
useful for data warehousing that requires single entry = single file.
Form 2-
        save-xml dir <dir-spec>
                This form saves as in example below:
                        save-xml dir /home/opensim/builds/myhouse

                /home/opensim/builds/myhouse  (directory containing):
                        myhouse.xml
                        texture001.jp2
                        texture002.jp2
                               ...
Form 3-
        save-xml backup
                This form saves everything into the profile specified 
backup filespec. Using a standardized form (likely Form 1)

Thoughts?

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Well Load/Save xml are working, its just that the format of the xml for 
LLUUID, LLVector3 and LLQuaternion have changed. So if you do a save-xml 
now and then try to load it, it should work. But trying to load a old xml 
file won't. So it depends if we need to make sure those old files work, if 
we spend time "fixing" it. 

Maybe we should take this chance to break other things too. Like Stephan 
said, we should get TextureEntry into a readable form. There are a few 
other changes we might want to make to. As we are coming up to version 0.5 
we could say 0.5 load/save-xml is not compatible with 0.4 files. 

Teravus Ovares <teravus at gmail.com> wrote:
Do you think we need to fix Save/loadXML before tying off the version 
number?


 
On 12/10/07, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote: 
We're getting towards the end of the year, and OpenSim has improved
dramatically since 0.4.  On the short list of new features is: 
* Physics (ODE is impressively stable at this point)
* Grid Mode (though there are still some asset issues)
* Animations
* IM, IRC Bridge
* Terraforming
* Throttling (though not a user facing feature)
(I'm sure I've missed some, please respond with other new features)

It seems like we should pick a couple of things that would be good to
"finish off" this month, then declare a 0.5 release around the first of 
the year.

My inclination is to say that bandaiding up current grid asset /
inventory to functioning state would be in that short list.  Others?

   -Sean

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