[Opensim-dev] From today, version 1.0 OAR files cannot be loaded into OpenSim 0.7.0.2 and earlier

[drwhiet at spacefriends.de]

Uhh ohhh .. Justin, i also Need to ask if this affects this weekends Upgrade on osgrid ?? As i am just creating .oar Files right now?

Best regards

Am 16.10.2010 um 07:12 schrieb Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>:

> Hi folks.
> 
> The object serialization format has been changed today, therefore I have been forced to bump the OAR version from 0.3 to 1.0
> 
> This means that 1.0 OARs cannot be loaded into OpenSim 0.7.0.2 and earlier.  Unfortunately, since these earlier OpenSim releases do not check the OAR version before loading, the loader will probably receive a huge number of cryptic errors about the xml not being correct, which will be extremely confusing to everyone.
> 
> If you want to produce OARs that can be loaded on OpenSim with current master code, you must specify --version=0 on the command line, e.g.
> 
> save oar --version=0 oars/my.oar
> 
> This will create an older (pre-today) style 0.3 OAR which can be loaded into older OpenSim versions.  There is currently no advantage in creating a 1.0 OAR rather than a 0.3 one.
> 
> OpenSim master code and the forthcoming OpenSim 0.7.1 will be able to load both 0.3 and 1.0 OARs.
> 
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