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

[Ideia Boa]

Everybody can use the "Lusitania Tester" region on WorldsimTerra-Grid, 
like Robert ask, and I'll do every week
a  OAR  and put the file for download  on the site.  If  everybody 
accept the  offer.

 

Robert Klein wrote:
> Short Term Idea:
> What about creating a single region on the OSGrid that everyone can put
> their creations on and the person who owns the region can simply dump an OAR
> file out once a week and place it where we can all get to it? Kind of like a
> contribution sandbox. Again we still need to figure out WHERE to keep the
> files but it might be a good start. 
>
> Long Term Idea:
> The same kind of region or regions as mentioned above, but as Justin
> mentions (once he finishes the code), you just click on a box of items and
> they get saved in some kind of OAR format minimized to just the parcel you
> were standing on, or some other method as yet to be determined. This would
> not require a file server but rather the region simulator acts as its own
> kind of file server.
>
> -Robert
>
>
>
> Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>   
>> Mo Hax wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> I would anticipate that something as small as a sofa would be transported
>> as an inventory item rather than as part of a 
>> region (which might still be suitable for city blocks).  Indeed, there is
>> experimental code for an inventory archive 
>> format that I intend to do something with fairly soon.
>>
>> As Robert said, OAR files are bulky.  To some extent this is a tradeoff of
>> convenience against file size.  If all the 
>> necessary assets weren't contained in the oar then they would need to be
>> requested over the web.  There is a certain 
>> inconvenience in making assets publicly available.  It's also not ideal if
>> you want to keep those assets private between 
>> yourself and some trusted receivers.
>>
>> However, the advantages are probably great enough for a way for an asset
>> service to request assets dynamically via urls 
>> to evolve in the future.  These urls would probably be embedded in the
>> object url so that one could just toss xml files 
>> about (though I think there are still good reasons for bundling multiple
>> objects to gether).  Indeed, Cable Beach may 
>> already be anticipating this.  I would anticipate that this alternative
>> would supplement archives rather than replace them.
>>
>>
>>     
>
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