[Opensim-users] Safe to use IAR 0.7.x to 0.6.x?

[Chris]

Ah okay, cool.
Thank you! =)

On 8/7/2010 6:44 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> On 08/08/10 00:18, Chris wrote:
>> Hi all, I was wondering if it was "safe" to create an IAR from my
>> avatar's inventory on my 0.7.x based OpenSim and reload it to 0.6.x
>> based OpenSim (load the IAR to 0.6.9 Post-Fixes in particular).
>
> That should work - the IAR format is identical in 0.6.9 and 0.7 and 
> I'm pretty sure none of the contained asset formats changed in an 
> incompatible way.  Going back further than 0.6.9 might be problematic 
> (though 0.6.8 is probably fine).
>
>>
>> Reason I am asking is because I tried this once with trying to load an
>> IAR created on 0.6.9 to 0.6.7 and noticed some asset losses, missing
>> inventory from the loaded archive, and just all around general 
>> weirdness.
>
> This was the period in which the initial phase of the format was under 
> active and more experimental development.  So I'm not too surprised if 
> there are compatibility issues in loading 0.6.9 IARs into 0.6.7.
>
> I will probably introduce some guarding so that older OpenSim versions 
> spit out errors if they try to load a newer incompatible format, 
> rather than go ahead with possible data lossage later on.
>
>>
>> I am testing out 0.7.0 Post-Fixes now and I would like to load back the
>> new stuff that I have created in 0.7.0 into 0.6.9 should I feel that I
>> should stick with 0.6.9 for a bit longer. I just wanted to be sure there
>> would be no asset/inventory losses in doing so.
>>
>> Thank you!
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