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Very well. Then I shall refrain from answering your questions in the future as you do not seem to wish to accept them. I am always one to encourage someone to educate themselves, so I shall cease to do so for you. Cmd. Cheyd I wasn't trying to rubbish your post. I just thought about its implication...

What gives you the impression that this over many years painfully handcrafted list (now split into four) is auto-generated? :?: Is the string "Category:" contained somewhere in the four links? No, it isn't. This alphabetical list, which used to be on the OXP -page before mcarans banned it...

Because Stable in software development is not a reference to how many bugs it has, how often it crashes, or anything like that. It's a reference to the API's / interfaces. A 'stable' release means that any feature that appears in that version will appear in all future versions. The way you access /...

Hypothetically, if I found a serious bug that affected 1.65 and 1.74.2, would the bug be fixed in 1.65.x, 1.74.x or both? The website says: Version 1.65, released in June 2006, is the latest full release of Oolite. However, the test releases are faster, prettier, more stable and use less memory, so ...

For me the save game thing is simply one of practicality. I have been suffering from crashes in Oolite that may be Linux kernel related but not easy to diagnose. It is quite frustrating that rather than resume from the last con store, I might have to replay from several systems back. I realise that ...

I will make this last contribution to this debate as I feel I've said more than enough. When you come to some sort of decision, I'll see if I can help out in implementing it. I would suggest approaching this by considering at least the following 4 use cases. You may be able to think of more. 1. OXP ...

You are right. Please discuss at the original location here: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... c&start=45

Thanks guys.

When thoughts of Oolite are of tension and problems rather than enjoyment and fun, then you are right - I need to take a break.

the Expansion Pack forum. After discussions on the forums and in PMs with many OXP authors, I've come to the realisation that the only place in which OXP information will be reliably updated is the Expansion Pack forum and so I've updated the OXP wiki site to say this. I heard how Oosat failed becau...

I finally bought one!

I had enough money but had to spend 4 hours going between about 50-100 systems (I long lost count) to find one which was frustrating but finally I have this most beautiful of vessels.

Regarding spam - if the wiki had an easily memorable universal account eg. username: oolite password: ooliteisgreat, would that make it easy for everyone to add to/change the wiki without opening it to lots of spam? And if a spammer still managed to mess up some pages, how hard is it for someone wit...

I don't think manually generated is the best way. It would be obviously preferable for the process to be fully automated then I wouldn't have to do any work. As I said before, noone has solved the problem of autogeneration being a moot point - Mediawiki addons cannot be installed on the server. Some...

Some authors have their own websites, most will not bother, many will use the wiki, some will have nothing or perhaps just a post on the bb. The OXPs which are detailed on the wiki get to be included, those that are not, do not. I dont see this as a problem. You've identified probably all the possi...

2 is already happening, isnt it? At least, people already have their own webistes and download locations. Yes agreed. I think 1 is unlikely to happen. Im not sure 2 requires the tables to be manually updated, or to be simple, they can simply be incomplete. If it were possible to have some degree of...

I completely agree with you. That's why I think there are 2 approaches that will work: 1. Every OXP author must have a wiki account and maintain his/her own wiki page, from which tables are autogenerated provided the appropriate Mediawiki addons can be installed 2. OXP authors can have a site anywhe...