Upgrading libopenmetaverse for RESTbot (legacy issue)

Note: This was a legacy issue that doesn't affect RESTbot anymore; RESTbot now uses LibreMetaverse, which is a fork of the currently unmaintained libopenmetaverse, and which is available directly through Microsoft's package repositories. As such, it can be fully integrated into the build sequence in a standard way, and, as such, does not require a separate installation.

Nevertheless, if for some reason you really wish to build RESTbot linked to an obsolete version of libopenmetaverse, then the following would apply to you:

The problem

RESTbot was designed to allow "easy" upgrade of libopenmetaverse by having it on a separate directory. The problem is that libopenmetaverse goes through several evolutions and it soon its API becomes incompatible with software developed for past versions

The instructions below assume Mac OS X or Linux. You're on your own if you're using Windows (sorry!).

Steps for the upgrade

• If you're using SVN: delete the libopenmetaverse folder under RESTbot and force a commit.
• Go to a different directory and get the latest code from libopenmetaverse using: svn co https://svn.github.com/openmetaversefoundation/libopenmetaverse libopenmetaverse (see http://lib.openmetaverse.org/wiki/Download)
• Now delete the SVN tags from libopenmetaverse (they will conflict with your build) by going to the freshly created libopenmetaverse and running find . -name '.svn' -print -exec rm -rf .svn {} \;
• Move this libopenmetaverse folder properly under RESTbot's own folder
• Go to libopenmetaverse and do ./runprebuild.sh nant
• Now commit the full changes on your SVN

Note: The above instructions need to be updated for using native Git commands as well as changing things to libremetaverseinstead (gwyneth 20211121)