[sldev] Automatically backing up scripts locally.

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There is already system that does exactly your ideal scheme and much more:

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-830

No need to reinvent the wheel.

It offers complete asset exchange and filter processes in the scheme.

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2007-12-20, at 05:15, Adam Frisby wrote:
>> Why not save it as the name + UUID to avoid any kind of collision 
>> between objects (IE, I'd have ten thousand New Script.lsl's)
>
> Because I was writing about what I'd be satisfied with. Not designing 
> the ultimate not-quite-a-source-control-system-for-SL.
>
> But now that you mention it I'm not sure that I'd want 10,000 files 
> named "ANOTHER-DAMN-UUID_New_Script.lsl" instead of just the one that 
> I happened to have saved last. Plus I don't believe the server tells 
> you the UUID of the object you just uploaded, wasn't there a 
> discussion recently about how to find that out? I guess you'll see it 
> when you get the object updates after the save, but once it's saved 
> you don't need the backup (at least not for what I was thinking of). 
> For archival purposes: perhaps save it to ScriptName.lsl and then 
> rename it to ScriptName.UUID.lsl once it's saved?
>
> If you want the ideal scheme... maybe something like this (modulo 
> symlink errors):
>
> SLBackup
>   ObjectName -> Region1/ObjectName    # Rezzed objects exist in regions
>   Region1
>     ObjectName -> ObjectName.UUID2    # Names aren't unique, UUIDs are
>     ObjectName.UUID1
>       Stuff in that other copy of ObjectName
>     ObjectName.UUID2            # Rezzed object *do* have a unique 
> name, use that.
>       Properties.xml -- object properties
>       Linkset                # Linksets are part of objects
>         RootPrim.UUID3 -> ../../Assets/RootPrim.UUID3
>         AnotherPrimName.UUID4 -> ../../Assets/AnotherPrimName.UUID4
>     Assets
>       RootPrim.UUID3            # I think names of rezzed assets are 
> unique
>         Parameters.xml -- prim parameters
>         ScriptName.lsl -> ScriptName.2007-12-20.lsl        # Hasn't 
> been saved yet
>         ScriptName.2007-12-20.lsl
>         AnotherScript.lsl -> ../../Assets/ScriptName.UUID5
>         TextureName -> ../../../Assets/TEXTURE_UUID.png        # UUIDs 
> are unique, but could have a different name in invemntory
>         AnotherTextureName -> ../../../Assets/ANOTHER_TEXTURE_UUID.png
>         NoCopyObjectName -> Missing/OBJECT_UUID        # Dead link for 
> missing UUIDs because of perms or whatever
>         AnotherObject -> ../../../Assets/ANOTHER_OBJECT_UUID    # 
> Hasn't been rezzed, is not in region's assets?
>       ScriptName.UUID5
>         Script.lsl -> ../UUID5.lsl
>     State.xml            # Running, etc...
>       UUID5.lsl
>   Assets                # Assets on asset server or unknown region
>     TEXTURE_UUID.png
>     ANOTHER_TEXTURE_UUID.png
>     ANOTHER_OBJECT_UUID
>       Parameters.xml
>     UUID6.lsl
>   Inventory
>     Scripts
>       ScriptInInventory -> ../../Assets/UUID6.lsl
>
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