[Opensim-dev] Implemented oar merge facility

[Jeroen van Veen]

Interesting stuff. I still wonder how it would work with a grid of simulators, 
all on different servers, and trying to offer a centralized entrance to those 
oars. Maybe a central directory in the opensim dir that's mounted with sshfs. 

Op zaterdag 28 november 2009 13:14:53 schreef Chris Hart:
> My test was with an 18Mb OAR file - took a little while to stream in as
> it downloaded, but the server seemed happy enough to wait for it to
> arrive, and restored all the contents successfully. Your mileage may
> vary, but this is fantastic stuff - with OARs on the web and mergeable
> OARs, that's a lot of flexibility for getting content from one place to
> another.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Jeroen van
> Veen
> Sent: 28 November 2009 1:05 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Implemented oar merge facility
> 
> awesome! is there a maximum filesize for this? I can imagine that 20mb+
> oar
> files may cause problems? I would like to implement an oar template
> loader/saver into a webinterface. This would really make things easier.
> Any
> suggestions how to make save-oar work in a centralized infrastructure?
> 
> Jeroen
> 
> Op vrijdag 27 november 2009 22:54:48 schreef Chris Hart:
> > Partially in response to this thread, and in response to Justin's
> 
> latest
> 
> > commit to implement web loading of OAR files (which he also kindly
> 
> added
> 
> > to 0.6.8-post-fixes) - Justin enabled the following as valid syntax:
> >
> > Load oar http://path.to/oarfile.oar
> >
> > So you can host OAR files on a web server and now load them without
> > having them locally.
> >
> > That said, from looking at the code changes, this has actually been
> > possible for a long time if you have registered the mime type for .oar
> > on your web server.
> >
> > On a website hosted on a Windows server with IIS7 I just added the
> 
> file
> 
> > extension .oar and set it to serve up "application/x-oar" and
> > successfully loaded an OAR file from the web onto an OpenSim 0.6.6
> > system. Those of you out there familiar with registering mime types on
> > other web application platforms such as Apache can likely do the same.
> >
> > Just thought I'd drop this in here in case it helps anyone :)
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> > [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Justin
> > Clark-Casey
> > Sent: 25 November 2009 8:21 PM
> > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: [Opensim-dev] Implemented oar merge facility
> >
> > Today I implemented an oar merge facility on OpenSim trunk.  A merge
> 
> can
> 
> > be
> > specified using a --merge switch like so
> >
> > load oar --merge my.oar
> >
> > more details at
> >
> > http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Archives#Usage
> >
> > The merge will leave the existing objects, terrain, region settings
> 
> and
> 
> > land
> > parcels in place.
> >
> > I'm not sure how useful merging is without a way to save parts of a
> > region
> > (either via parcel or possibly owner id).  Feedback appreciated as
> > always.
> 
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