Oolite Bulletins

Seems there are in depth problems even when packaging AppImages? I never heard of the tools you mention but they surely exist for a reason. Yet all this sounds like beating around the bush as noone wants to go for the real problem: upgrade Oolite for new/latest dependencies. Flatpak vs AppImage leav...

I tested both the flatpak as well as the appimage on Ubuntu 24 LTS, running them several times. The startup screen looks centered on my primary display. After that the window comes up maximized. While the flatpak showed the game window on the primary display all the time, the appimage shifted the ma...

Just like the Microsoft Store or FlatHub, AppImages can be registered on https://appimage.github.io/ so they get more popular. While I tried to follow this guide https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-submit-appimages-to-the-catalog I had to find out that all tests ...

Line added to help screen. You can now see if you are running a debug-functionality-enabled (test release) build or not. Thank you for that change. This works, and it is backward compatible. Versions that do not disclose their build type still won't go interactive. I enhanced OoliteStarter to make ...

We have badges already set up for MSStore and Flathub in the Downloads page. Ha, indeed. How could I miss them? Then all that's left is to register our appimage builds here: https://appimage.github.io/ (offtopic) Once your AppImage is available for download, please file an issue at GitHub to get it...

Now I need a better way to test for the debug capability. Currently that still requires to extract the manifest.plist file. Short of augmenting the --help, I can only find this crude method, which probably won't work on ancient versions. timeout 5 ./Oolitewhatever.AppImage -verify-oxp /tmp/notreal ...

The game is categorized "Role play +1". Is that intended? And what is this +1? Ah, hovering on it reveals "Simulation". Yes, that's what I had assumed in first place. We could generate a badge and add that to our homepage. Such as <a href="https://get.microsoft.com/installer...

--help seems to work fine with appimage $ ./Oolite_test_1.92.1.7800-260303-6443c4c-x86_64.AppImage --help 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/^Version //p' 1.92.1.7800-260303-6443c4c Yep, that works. So it is at least not necessary to extract the image for version information. Now I need a better way to test f...

Unfortunately still neither the released nor the prereleased artifacts do provide their version numbers on the command line. It means the clumsy handling of new builds is still required for OoliteStarter to detect the Oolite version. The more the current version gets distributed the more this become...

The difference is Mac and to Windows change at specific points in time on version upgrades but at any one point in time, the current version is a single flavour (more or less) eg. the current version of Windows is Windows 11 2025 Update (Version 25H2) and there are no other current flavours, wherea...

You are correct. The idea of the flatpak and appimage is to overcome the heterogeneity of Linux systems, a problem that doesn't exist for Windows (or Mac). Those packages contain everything needed for the game to run so local libraries should not be needed. It would be an endless task to try to sup...

I am wondering why we still discuss sdl1, sdl2, sdl3 and various compatibility layers. On linux the distribution format is now flatpak and appimage. Was not the whole switch intended to provide application plus libraries so that the OS libraries do not matter any longer? Or is it that just half the ...

I heard (and suspect it is true) that Oolite creates a window (which at that time has width and height equal to zero), ask for centering, then resizes the window to show the splash screen (which just moves the bottom right corner). That at least is what I perceive on my triple monitor setup. Also I ...

The PR is merged. I downloaded and installed the new artifacts. Flatpak $ flatpak list Name Application ID Version Branch Origin Installation [...] Oolite space.oolite.Oolite 1.93.0.7779-260228-d4a7a70 master oolite-origin system Oolite space.oolite.Oolite 1.92.1 stable flathub system $ flatpak run ...

What wrong with just having normal .pdfs in the download? The ones we have been using up until now? Has this method stopped working? Just like you I also favour the game and it's documentation being bundled together. The reason this is no longer the case - at least as much as I understand it - is a...