[Opensim-users] What are some solutions for oar file sharing?

[Mo Hax]

I have heard of this and am only experimenting now with it, but doesn't that
imply some cleanup of the output from a save-oar against an entire region?
Even if that region has nothing in it but the new items you have built? and
are targetting for later sharing as OAR.

This also raises a best-practice question about the amount of content to
generally put in an OAR in any sharing site. OARs could be as granular as
one per, say, sofa, or as broad as one per city block.

Perhaps that is something that does not lend itself to convention and should
just be left up to the content provider, but it seems to me the more
granular the content contained in the OAR package the more consumable they
become overall.

I have always dreamed of something of an SL Xchange site where people could
search out such packaged (OAR) content, view a few snapshots of it, and
click a button to download it, even load it into their opensim directly.
Someday it will come one way or another. Funny, if XStreet allowed file
upload and download and PayPal payment as well as just Linden it could
almost serve that purpose right now and we could have a content 'mall' to
piggy back for even for-sale content as well.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Frisby, Adam <adam at deepthink.com.au> wrote:

>  Well, the OAR doesn't have to be entire regions – it's basically a
> archive file (targz) containing:
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> -          An XML file for each object
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> -          All associated assets
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> There's no reason why the number of XML files has to match the entire
> region, I believe being able to seamlessly import these without a wipe
> probably makes some sense.
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> Adam
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> *From:* opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:
> opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] *On Behalf Of *Mo Hax
> *Sent:* Saturday, 31 January 2009 5:17 PM
> *To:* opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> *Subject:* Re: [Opensim-users] What are some solutions for oar file
> sharing?
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>
>
> Ok, another thread never hurts I suppose. ;)
>
> Agreed no wikis for content sharing ultimately.
>
> I agree with others forge is the place.
>
> Are we in agreement that OARs are the standard? Don't they represent entire
> regions?
>
> The standard workflow, then, seems to be becoming that every grid have an
> OAR landing pad that gets wiped and redone for each OAR import as content is
> moved into other locations on that grid. Did I get that right? Someday a
> client side way to do the same would be nice, but Second Inventory seems to
> have that locked up at the moment, although I would love to reduce our
> dependence on it.
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> All,
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> I have noticed there are several seperate threads trying to deal with this
> subject. How about we roll it under this one thread to make it easier to
> follow? The problem is we have and will have a ton of oar files to share
> and
> need a solid way to accomplish it other than clogging up a wiki server.
> Mirrors? Bit torrent? What are your thoughts? Thanks!
>
> -Robert
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