Oolite Bulletins

Since when is this check in the game?

I was wondering myself that there is no such check when I raised my money to buy big ships or increased the auto repair kits to benefit from in-combat repairs.

Took me a little to remember that I can view my current contracts by pressing F5 twice. That (and the primary function of F5) isn't mentioned here: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Keyboard_Controls There is a reference sheet on GitHub which does mention this but it's stamped with "Out...

Confirmed, the correct PDFs are now packaged with the Windows installer too. In case it can be of help in the future, the Windows installer executables are accessible as LZMA archives by 7-zip. At least on Windows, I can open them inside 7-zip and extract any part of their contents without actually...

Run unzip -o artifacts/oolite-doc.zip Archive: artifacts/oolite-doc.zip inflating: oolite/Doc/AdviceForNewCommanders.pdf inflating: oolite/Doc/OoliteRS.pdf inflating: oolite/Doc/OoliteReadMe.pdf extracting: oolite/Doc/OOLITE_VERSION.txt Verified: The Linux artifacts do contain the generated files. ...

Seems like I found the culprit! The extract command would only extract newer or non-existing files (the -u option). I switched to -v -o and have this output in a test branch: Run unzip -v -o artifacts/oolite-doc.zip Archive: artifacts/oolite-doc.zip Length Method Size Cmpr Date Time CRC-32 Name ----...

Now this is strange. When the documentation is built (that means the PDFs are generated), there is an artifact called oolite-doc.zip. That one contains the correct files. Then this artifact gets downloaded and extracted. During extraction I see this log output: 2025-05-05T00:01:54.9016942Z ##[group]...

another_commander wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 4:37 am

No, I downloaded from GitHub.

Interesting. When I get to it I'll take a look. May need your support as I don't do Windows...

Plus the odt document is bundled into future releases - if there are any. Actually, just checked and this is not the case. The current pre-release installers contain the outdated PDFs instead of the current ones. That is unexpected. Here is the line that generates fresh PDFs based on the .odt: http...

Only the PDF Reference Sheet is outdated. The .odt (LibreOffice) source Reference Sheet file found in the same Doc folder on github is fully up to date. Plus the odt document is bundled into future releases - if there are any. The PDF version is there solely because not having it breaks the build.

I tried, unsucessfully, to compile Oolite under a Raspberry Pi 4B. This will have to fail for a simple reason: The Rasperry is based on an ARM architecture. Oolite comes bundled with some precompiled libraries. That is not bad per se. But for one they are x86 or x86_64 based, and they are outdated ...

EDIT: Hiran, might you explain the warnings of this type? Optional Expansions mismatch between OXP Manifest and Expansion Manager at character position 0068 (DIGIT ZERO vs LATIN SMALL LETTER N) I presumed that the character position is within the manifest, but I did not find (in the case of the par...

Cholmondely: thanks; when I get time, I'll try to add some pictures to that page. Hiran: thank you very much. But, what, Apple and Linux builds of Oolite are not working? I can see relevant discussion about the Mac build, here . . Discussions? Sure. Please show me some result: Oolite 1.91 usable fo...

It looks to me there is no clear picture how OXPs get published and end up in the player's Oolite installation. To make the receiving end intuitive (that's why the expansion manager was created) some paperwork is necessary. It has been minimized to the absolutely necessary but I would not know where...

Could you use a URL shortening service (like Tiny URL) to shorten it? That way, nothing else needs to be created. Rather than adding yet another dependency I'd involve timer to test whether https://oolite.space/ is feasible. The string oxz-index-url is looked up in the configuration (GnuStepDefault...

I enabled the commented out steps and switched to the latest version 4 of the workflow step.
Works.