Oolite Bulletins

The Windows installers are lzma compressed files although they are executables at the same time. Can you treat any of them as an lzma (7zip opens them fine as an example) to get access to Resources? OoliteAddonScanner does not invoke 7zip. I can test if it can be read as zip file. It's not me who w...

Thanks for checking this. Lone_Wolf mentioned adding a source.zip that contains not just the oolite repo but all the deps as well for distro package creators. Would that help here? I'm not clear how the expansion process works. Is the process this GitHub workflow: https://github.com/OoliteProject/o...

Now that we have the new builds (msix, appimage, flatpak) it is much easier to distribute Oolite again. In parallel the MacOS build was removed - it did not work anyway on today's Apple computers. Kudos for those who worked hard to get there! At the moment when Oolite 1.92 was released and the 'late...

This thread might give some insight

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This would be a call for a release branch which removes the need to freeze the master.

Aside from the layout issues, it's hard to track changes in GitHub compared to other textual formats. Maybe this could help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52873519/how-can-i-get-useful-git-diff-of-files-saved-by-libre-office-writer-with-output It would allow to better track changes but still ...

That is interesting. I changed from that behaviour as more than once the docs and the pdfs were not updated in sync. They don't have to be updated in sync. The only time they need to be synced is just before release. Every two or three years (or 5+ in our case). Thus a developer would simply have t...

When I load the original odt (https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite/blob/master/Doc/OoliteRS.odt) in LibreOffice, it is 16 pages and the formatting is a mess. Is that what you see? It is that mess that I have been trying to fix. If that is not what you see, then it means that two versions of Libr...

... I am not convinced that the automatically versioned PDFs are really useful, given that we only change them once every three years or so. Removing the auto-generation from the github actions build could make the workflow simpler, too. But if there is a way to make the right PDFs end up in the bu...

Completely different idea: OoliteStarter is a wrapper for Oolite to ease savegame and expansion management. Would it be feasible to integrate it into the msi or appimage or flatpak? Then the whole scanning process can be skipped. Cannot integrate it into MSIX. We would need to include the entire Ja...

Completely different idea:

OoliteStarter is a wrapper for Oolite to ease savegame and expansion management.
Would it be feasible to integrate it into the msi or appimage or flatpak? Then the whole scanning process can be skipped.

I will not implement the above change. But whoever wants to pick it up here are the locations that need to be touched: Running Oolite (need to add env vars): https://github.com/OoliteProject/OoliteStarter/blob/master/src/main/java/oolite/starter/Oolite.java#L766 Scanning for Oolite installations (ne...

The modern builds of Oolite allow configuring many things by environment variable and there are some new path layouts to consider eg. for Flatpak and the MSIX. It may be able to take advantage of environment variables by setting them to OoliteStarter-defined locations instead of copying or moving f...

We had a comment on Discord from a Mac user "BoabyBoy": I installed the latest OoliteStarter version 0.1.34 but it was not able to find the oolite.app even I try to manually find the file or allow it to scan the file automatically. I even had finder set to show file extensions but still w...

Since I’m currently using Oolite Starter to manage and review expansions, I’ve noticed that not all OXPs are available through it. Would you happen to have recommendations or links for the main places where older or manually‑installed OXPs can still be found? For example, I saw the list of OXPs on ...