Oolite Bulletins

If the right libs are bundled, it will work on newer distros than that on which it was built with few or no extra packages required. Tha advantage of bundling the right libs extends to it working on other contemporary platforms. That is a big 'if'. We are not there yet. We are simply not able to fi...

I don't know why Oolite - compiled on Ubuntu 20 or 22 does not run on 24. Only guessing it's related to gnustep. Even more irritating is the fact that Oolite compiled on 24 does not run on 24. There is nothing limiting us to only one build that runs everywhere. Yes, favorable. But still we can run t...

Well you cannot blame Github for just providing the latest version for each operating system. After all they provide it free of charge. If you want other (older) operating systems noone stops you to setup and maintain that infrastructure. The fact that noone is doing it - not even those asking for i...

GitHub: We will soon start the deprecation process for Ubuntu 20.04. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on 2025-02-01 and the image will be fully unsupported by 2025-04-01. Which basically means we'll have to ei...

On the github for the starter, it says that there is an installer. Where would those be located? I cannot seem to find it on github nor references in the wiki as of yet. Referring to this? https://github.com/OoliteProject/OoliteStarter?tab=readme-ov-file#installation-and-uninstallation Go to Releas...

I've just been looking at the lo-o-o-o-ng list of Warnings for my Vital Statistics OXP. I don't understand any of it - and thus have no idea as to what might be able to do about it. Can you help? I'ma guess the first 38 lines are caused by you using a Mac-specific text-editor which has added some h...

There is some explanation about the four folders for expansion management available: https://github.com/OoliteProject/OoliteStarter?tab=readme-ov-file#expansion-management The reason for that came up as most users expected to be able to seamlessly switch between the in game expansion manager and Ool...

Vector maps with Dot? AFAIK you specify a graph (which means nodes and edges), and graphviz will automatically layout the graph in a (meaningful) way. But if you already know x and y coordinates you do not need that layout algorithm at all. In that case I'd switch to Scalable Vector Graphics which m...

Well, after fixing the home directory, I'm still getting this issue. So what is in the logfile this time? Here's the current logfile: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nyhj4jtb1nmm939l45a9f/oolite-starter.zip?rlkey=6fir92pa69s1heymsw8fp4cnc&st=8qdqs03i&dl=0 I ran Starter today and it asked me ...

Firstly, we don't really know what changes in each gnustep version. Yes, there are changelogs etc. but one would need to study them in detail for each new gnustep version coming out to judge if and how it would affect us, which understandably is not something people want to do. And yes, we did have...

Efficiency is actually not required to look at in this case. While relying on shared libraries, there is a trend to ship applications as snap, flatpak or appimage. The content is a whole filesystem wrapped within an archive. Inside this filesystem there is the application, it's dependencies (the sha...

Oolite needs gnustep. And Ubuntu provides gnustep. So far so good. But note that on different versions of Ubuntu different versions of gnustep are provided: Taken from https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libgnustep&searchon=names: Paket libgnustep-base1.26 focal (20.04LTS) (libs): GNUste...

Hi To force a misjump: Start the countdown nornally and do a full pitch up as it gets to zero. If you hit zero at full pitch up you will execute a misjump. Actually I am wondering why the wichdrive would malfunction on full pitch up. Ok, the alignment of the ship is changing, yada yada. But does it...

Hello All My eyes are on stalks from overdosing on trying to raise my Harmless rating. Can anyone tell me what a Super Cobra is and are they hard to kill - I have been reading various bits and pieces and seen them mentioned a couple of times.. Thanks James Here is some more data: https://ooliteproj...

So how about two 'simple and reusable' scripts then? One to turn the planetinfo file into a CSV, another one to convert it back to plist (whichever format). With that, a user can start editing in a spreadsheet application (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or LibreOffice) or load it into some SQL databas...