[Opensim-dev] Folder numbers

[Diva Canto]

On 8/6/2015 7:58 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> On 15-08-06 10:16 AM, Diva Canto wrote:
>> A root
>> folder anything other than 8 will crash viewers that check for it.
>
> That would be a bug in the viewer program. If it gets something 
> unexpected it shouldn't crash but handle it gracefully.

Crash as in refuse to continue, I assume. That's what assertions are for.

>
>> I would like to hear of any objections to proceeding with (1) 
>> complying with
>> the protocol for root folders and (2) changing the Suitcase folder 
>> number to
>> something other than 8 (Oren, you did that, so please let us know).
>
> Has anyone determined why OpenSim changed the root folder number to 9?
>

This happened in the move from 0.6.x to 0.7.x. I can't remember why this 
was done, but I suspect we just used whatever libomv defines as root 
folder, which is... 9 -- see AssetType.RootFolder. It looks like libomv 
is "wrong," and the viewer devs have recently submitted a patch to 
libomv to correct this.