[Opensim-dev] Folder numbers

[Diva Canto]

btw, I have a strong suspicion that older grids have now a mix of 8 and 
9 for root inventory folders, because this change happened from 0.6.x to 
0.7.x, but no one cared so far about the exact value of this field.

On 8/6/2015 8:09 AM, Diva Canto wrote:
> 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.
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